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...waste made notorious by charity balls and the United Way scandal, in which money was spent to raise more money and lavished on salary and perks. The two founding partners, the Points of Light Foundation and the Corporation for National Service, were already going concerns without a lot of fluff or overhead. Powell takes no salary...
...small bundles of fluff and feathers looked like any other freshly hatched chickens. But when these Plymouth Rock hatchlings began chirping, it was clear that they were rare birds indeed. Instead of launching into the usual chicken songs, they crowed and bobbed like baby quail. Some harkened to danger calls from adult quail but didn't so much as cock-a-doodle-doo when called by mama hens...
...sensitive to fluff in resumes," says Cooksey. "When we are under consideration we always talk to alumni...
This perspective--or indeed, any perspective--obviously escaped Kaufman. Instead of treating the Peninsula piece as the fluff that it was, he freely applied the most libelous epithets imaginable, calling Peninsula members fascistic, Gestapo-esque anti-Semites...
...Standing. The characters played by Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler are like the Furies crossed with the Three Stooges--college friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners and pratfalls, the movie is more than satiric fluff. Like Thelma & Louise, which five years ago set audiences to cheering when Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon blasted a trucker's rig to smithereens--or last year's Waiting to Exhale, which had women yelling "Go, girl!" at the screen--The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well...