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...displays-what else?-conservative decor, usually pale shades of pink that blend with her complexion. Popular nail orders are for half-moons, hearts, houses, bumblebees, ladybugs and lilies. One Revlonutionary in Los Angeles celebrates Bicentennial themes; other tastes range from pets to presidential preferences. At Mr. Michaels, a Manhattan manicurist, a new fad is to have each finger painted a different color...
Johnny) Carson, says that requests for far-out fingers have gone up tremendously of late. One of Vartoughian's current specialties: Valentines. Manicurist Minnie Smith, a 20-year veteran whose Minnie-designs decorate the likes of Sinatra, Lovelace, Mitzi Gaynor and Leslie Uggams, is giving a $350 course in finger painting. One of the most innovative designers is Paula Johnson, who has turned one customer's fingernails into a handful of cards (a full house). Manicurist Dyan Hill, who had five years of art school, recently deployed a Chinese dragon in turquoise, gold, orange, lime green and fuchsia...
Except during his service abroad, he has lunched every day for as long as anyone can remember at the same rooftop restaurant of a Lisbon hotel. His hair has been cut by the same barber for 30 years, and his nails have been cared for by the same manicurist for 26 years. A teetotaler, he has stayed trim by regular riding on his horse Achilles, the mount on which he has won several national and international competitions. He can also be somewhat overbearing. In Guinea, he told fat officers to lose weight, and if they did not, he ordered them...
...farce that never stops long enough to be ticketed for its frequent wrong turns. In the title role, France's mononymic comedian Bourvil has too much worldly charm and intelligence to make a convincing jerk, yet he is hilarious all the same as he takes a sexy Roman manicurist to dinner and absently dips his fingers in a water glass when she asks to hold his hand...
Under Director Gerard Oury, Bourvil's trip follows the standard itinerary of scenic vistas and sight gags, with wayside dalliance supplied by the Italian manicurist and a blossomy German blonde, De Funès stays right behind him all the way in a green Jaguar, which is tailed, in turn, by a furtive Austin-Healey carrying members of a rival gang. Always mirthful if not memorable, and photographed in crisp showroom color, The Sucker is funniest on side excursions, particularly a sopping wet and agreeably ribald robbers-and-robbers chase among the stony nudes of the Tivoli fountains near...