Word: fuchsia
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...explosion of office seekers in California may have been due, in part, to the state's low threshold for boredom. "A woman candidate is automatically more interesting," says William Schneider, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, "a flash of fuchsia in a sea of gray." Pollster Field says when people sense that "politically, things are going to hell in a hand basket," a woman candidate becomes more appealing: "By not being part of the problem, she comes across as part of the solution...
...Family Man, Married People and Sons and Daughters -- try telling them apart). It is also the hollowness of the supposedly innovative stuff. The game this season is to grab the audience's attention, to make shows stand out from the crowd in some way. But the swatches of fuchsia and bright orange can't disguise the dingy old furniture underneath...
...dressed her best," advises Lear. "Often intelligent women feel embarrassed about concentrating on fashion. They shouldn't. It isn't trivial." Though a feminist, she readily exalts the sexual power of feminine beauty. Blissfully she recalls lounging about a country-club pool in her 20s. "I was wearing a fuchsia top and bottom, brief for those times. My body was just right. Well, the men just kept on coming over to me. At that moment, beauty was power." As the priestess of age preaches her formula for mature beauty to Madison Avenue, once again heads are snapping...
...Christopher Hayes, Morgan Taylor, Charter Club by Jane Justin. The names seem perfectly suited to each designer's personal style as well. Moore proffers the pastel colors of the English garden in her pale pink skirts and sweaters. Taylor is known for undergarments, ranging from emerald green chemises to fuchsia-toned satin slips, which are sold in a boutique filled with Victorian-inspired lace and linen. What shoppers might be surprised to find out, though, is that these designers do not exist. Macy's has concocted these tony names for its own house brands. Private labels, as they are called...
With 70 albums and 40 years in the business behind her, Cruz, seventyish, handsome, dark-skinned and wearing a snug, sequined fuchsia gown, gyrates for 90 minutes to the insistent beat of her razor-sharp backup band. At the refrain of her old favorite Canto a la Habana (Song to Havana) -- "Cuba que lindos son tus paisajes" (Cuba, what beautiful vistas you have) -- the bilingual crowd goes wild, even though most of those present have never seen Cuba and have little prospect of ever doing so. "We've never had to attract these kids. They come by themselves," says Cruz...