Word: knockouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve-year-old children, of course. But Streep sees what she calls "my makeover" as a willed act, accomplished with contact lenses, a bottle of peroxide and an iron determination. By the time she entered Bernards High School in Bernardsville, N.J., she had indeed become "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout," acting out what she calls "my first characterization; I played the blond homecoming queen for several years." It was not a mindless, giddy time, however; a highly developed sense of irony intruded, she says, with the result that "I haven't felt young since I was 13." But high school...
...Beevis. After putting the word around that they had prepared several back-up dresses in case of a security breach, they finally fessed up that there was only one after all. But it was enough, and then some. It balanced stately splendor and storybook fantasy and was altogether a knockout. "The fairyness was us," David Emanuel said. "The regalness...
...been cleaned up by commercial sponsors and FCC censors. Afraid to confine its audience to triple-X, enthusiasts, its writers refuse to include more than a suggestion of sex. They offer a film without the most crucial ingredient, like a championship boxing match without a knockout punch or a presidential debate without John Anderson...
...days ago in Manhattan, she filmed a 30-second commercial for Alberto VO5. Director, to Dickinson: "I want you to be a knockout." Dickinson: "You got it, Jack." Director , later: "Hot, hot, smiling hot. Now sparkle. Beautiful, beautiful...
Lots of shoulder. Hot, hot." Dickinson visibly strained to generate the required radiance. She is well aware that to be an exciting model you need more than mere static, knockout looks...