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Middle-market hoteliers have spruced up some of their rooms to pursue a segment of the population that seldom flinches at business downturns or high prices. Says Analyst Daniel R. Lee of Drexel Burnham Lambert: "It doesn't cost that much more to offer this. It takes a fluffier towel, a thicker carpet and a little better service. For that, these hotels charge a pretty hefty premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Room at the Top | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...Cage Aux Folles II, even fluffier than its predecessor, is a tiresome travesty of a film. At the outset, it resembles the original movie: Ennio Morricone's cheerily mellow Muzak score plays as Renato argues with Albin over one of his ("her") musical numbers. Once again, Michel Serrault as Albin, epitomizes all those ancient stereotypes about feminine flightiness and vanity--and once again, he walks the slender line between racy humor and misogyny. Ugo Tognazzi--with the wise restraint he displayed in the first film--underplays Renato, the patient husband who holds on to just a little...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Happy Loving Couples | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

Unquenchable millions of Americans packed their children into sedans and station wagons and hit the road. For the moment, at least, summertime rites seemed more important than civil rights; personal clouds were fluffier than the faraway blossom of the latest atomic shot; disarmament was something for Harold Stassen to worry about; and international problems, from Arabs to Zhukov, all belonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Summer 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Earl Warren has gained weight since he left California. His hair is whiter, softer and fluffier, and a benign fullness has smoothed from his face all the small pinches of arrogance that led California political rivals to dub him the Earl of Warren. He loves the Supreme Court, presides over its sessions, both public and private, with easy skill. The eight Associate Justices love Warren, and under his influence work together as rarely before. But by last week, when Warren and his colleagues put their robes in mothballs after one of the busiest terms in history, the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Ends a Busy Term, Draws a Heavy Fire | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

Margery Sterling, who took a master's degree in home economics at Cornell, is a young housewife who knows how to turn out a lemon pie. One day husband Robert, a chemist in Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Pittsburgh laboratories, got to wondering if anything on earth was fluffier or lighter than Margery's meringue topping. That helped him along with a scientific idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Inventive Mind | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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