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...trademark. She blithely uses material in her act from the life she shares with her daughters, teenage Erica (Samantha Mathis) and 10-year-old Opal (Gaby Hoffmann). And, not least of her sins, she falls in love with her agent, Arnold Moss (Dan Aykroyd), who nervously chews Kleenex. Gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsentimental Educations | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...Anna Chlumsky), is a hypochondriac who lives in a funeral parlor. Dan Aykroyd, Vada's widowed, mortician father, learns about love and the living from his makeup artist, Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin), this sweet saga is both hilarious and heartrending. Don't forget the Kleenex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 9, 1991 | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

Usually, I can ignore them. But sometimes I get disgusted, reach for the kleenex, and murder them in cold blood: Miss Weiss, with the Tissue, in the Common Room...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Peaceful Coexistence | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...fashion statement? With its reverent ads and fitness-cult following, Perrier won a unique niche in the psyche and vocabulary of the '80s. "People ask for Perrier when they want mineral water," says Dan Rose, a bartender at an uptown Manhattan restaurant, "the same way they ask for Kleenex when they want a tissue. Perrier has come to mean mineral water." Riding the decade's fitness fad, sales jumped 190% in seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Let Them Drink Seltzer | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...Excessive Self-Congratulation. Although your mother and father may indeed be very proud of you for blowing your nose, don't expect your interviewer to wax ecstatic. Don't peer into your kleenex and announce, "That was a good one!" Above all, don't attempt to continue a conversation while your fingers are anywhere in the general vicinity of your nostrils...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No-Nos of Job Interviews | 2/10/1990 | See Source »

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