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...agree that those who feel the pain of gays and lesbians at Harvard [should use the speech] as a time not to take issue with Powell, but as a time to say something loving and supportive about gays and lesbians?" asked Dion, who was wearing a pink lapel button reading "Lift...
These biographical facts metter less than the truths of character they allow Peck to express. While the characters' occupations and social positions fluctuate, certain gestures and objects of intimacy reverberate through all the stories a hand ruffling hair, a rose in a lapel, a certain turn of phrase. The final effect is like looking at multiple exposures of a photograph, or into a glorious colored kaleidescope. Although Martin and John never tells us the exact details of these characters' lives, it gives a finely observed portrait of the way those lives feel...
...DOESN'T ALWAYS PAY TO PLAN AHEAD. BACK IN AUGUST THE Clinton for President Committee rewarded faithful donors with "CLINTON TEAM" lapel pins, individually numbered. The pin and number would supposedly serve as a security pass to a "members only" Inaugural victory celebration. About 115,000 folks donated $13 million, and many of them got psyched up for the big party. But the promise was forgotten. After complaints started coming in, invites were finally sent out to the special event: the opening ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. It's so exclusive that it's only open to the public...
Never settle for the boring. A tasteful brooch on a lapel, a pleasantly patterned scarf, earrings and bracelets, carefully and not too heavy-handed makeup can all jazz up the ordinary...
...have been an exceptional week that brought the openings of fiercely funny and trenchantly topical plays by three of the nation's leading dramatists. But if the theater seemed reborn with relevance last week -- thanks to Larry Kramer's poignant gay Bildungsroman, The Destiny of Me, David Mamet's lapel-grabbing vision of political correctness cum intellectual terrorism in Oleanna and Wendy Wasserstein's drawing-room comedy with claws, The Sisters Rosensweig -- Broadway was not part of the buzz. For reasons ranging from finances to the tyranny of reviews, the producers of all three chose to open off-Broadway. Artistically...