Word: neatness
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...Elizabeth Terry, the wife, had a way of doing things perfectly or not at all. "I had this do-it-right complex left over from the wool business," she says. "And I got into the food thing because Michael was so positive about it. And it was really neat. You read these recipes, and it was like making a sand castle or doing a chemistry project. To do it right, it had to look exactly like its picture in the cookbook...
...shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana Vreeland, who in her years as a fashion doyen coined a neat line about Indian dress ("Pink is the navy blue of India"), started to organize this show more than a year and a half ago, and her trademarks are abundant. There are atmospheric tapes of Indian court music, elaborate furniture, and the scent of a specially made Guerlain sandalwood to orchestrate...
...CHAIRMEN SENSED that the Democrats of '86 and '88 and '92 would have to see the "Reagan Phenomenon" as a lesson in the need for neat packaging a keen sense of the symbolic they were probably right. We should be concerned that the Democratic National Committee sees its search for a symbol to replace the familiar donkey as good preparation for the upcomming campaign...
Postolos cautions, however, against labeling problems: "Categorizing problems is against the idea that each person has a different story to tell. Someone's bringing a part of his experience to us, and it's not a neat, little package or a category...
Besson inflicts his audience, whom he clearly despises, with didactic-as-all-get-out musical sojourns. In one we're told that we watch too much TV. Neat-o. In another we learn, to the sound of gunfire, that people kill people. Brilliant. Other scenes are less direct. At a pointless dinner party, the pre-Madonna-esque Ford girl heroine (portrayed, through the eyelashes, by international Cover Girl Adjani), tells a roomful of squares exactly what she thinks of them. With her Bride of Frankenstein fright wig and a gutter-mouthed talent for the unprintable expletive, she makes a speech...