Word: hairdos
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...town's values). The ad people have gone to great lengths to blend into the scenery, leaving their fancy cars back in Chicago and driving pickup trucks. One agency executive was almost unmasked when a coffee-shop waitress took a good look at her and noted that her expensive hairdo "didn't come from around here." So what matters in Laskerville? "Everything that is important seems to be tied directly to children," observes Dan Fox, head of the project. "And helping one's neighbors is not just something do-gooders do. It's all-pervasive...
...balance jumpers look funny, but they hit nothing but net. He may not run much, but when he does, he's a blur. And on the rare occasions he decides to get a rebound, he skies. They call him Baby Jordan--he's got the Great One's hairdo (or lack thereof), flapping tongue and jump-out-of-the-gym dunk crossed with B.J. Armstrong's oh-so-innocent, what-me-worry baby face...
...Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family. And how pleased Edward is to be a guest of this brood -- especially since it includes teenage Kim (Winona Ryder), to < whom Edward will give his love...
...looks like a casting director's idea of a Bryn Mawr president who must be bodily restrained from adding gloves -- or perhaps even a pillbox hat -- to her already ultra-conservative banker-blue suits and fitted red blazers and pearls. One San Francisco columnist refers to her "vulcanized hairdo," worthy of Margaret Thatcher. Other traits, however -- her stature (5 ft. 10 in. in the half heels she favors) and a steady green- eyed gaze -- bespeak a sense of authority and a sociability that enabled her to be mayor of rambunctious San Francisco for nine turbulent years, from...
...balance jumpers look funny, but they hit nothing but net. He may not run much, but when he does, he's a blur. And on the rare occasions he decides to get a rebound, he skies. They call him Baby Jordan--he's got the Great One's hairdo (or lack thereof), flapping tongue and jump-out-of-the-gym dunk crossed with B.J. Armstrong's oh-so-innocent, what-me-worry baby face...