Word: parasol
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After holding court in his dressing room, Pavarotti pressed into the crowded corridor followed by the members of a documentary-film crew, one of whom held a white umbrella aloft to diffuse a floodlight. As the tenor made ins progress toward the exit under the effulgent parasol, bestowing more blessings and kisses, breaking into nimble dance steps and mugging for the camera, he looked like a cross between an Oriental potentate and the late Zero Mostel. Before heading off in his Rolls-Royce, he rated his performance that night: "8.5 on a scale of ten, and, remember, I never give...
...boys; you feel like a hunk of meat." Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs succeeded her late husband in Congress, but to keep the seat for the past six years, she has had to win acceptance as one of the regulars at places like the Half Moon oyster house and Parasol's Bar, where politics is played in New Orleans' Italian and Irish neighborhoods...
Charlie's fallen angel has replaced her former halo with a parasol-and is on Cloud Nine. "This is my first three-dimensional role," bubbles Farrah Fawcett-Majors. In the forthcoming movie Somebody Killed Her Husband, Farrah plays Jenny Moore, an unhappily married young mother who falls in love with an unsuccessful writer of children's books (Jeff Bridges). Between embraces, the pair chase around Manhattan trying to find out who knocked off Jenny's husband-and why. "I really understand the character of Jenny, and every day I think I learn something new about her," reflects...
...Tightrope Act: As in the circus, this requires great balance, an umbrella, or parasol, in hand. The consequences of failure can be considerable. You have just entered Emerson 101, or some other hall with closely packed desks, ten minutes late. There is an empty seat four rows down and seven seats in. You have one minute to get there without dropping your dripping umbrella, raincoat, backpack or books from the Coop into the laps of students in your...
Louisiana Feminist Annabelle Walker, demurely dressed in a hoop skirt and twirling a parasol, demonstrated in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment last year. "A man shies away from an overly aggressive female," warns Gale Childers, who nonetheless has been aggressive enough to be a South Carolina bank branch manager at the age of 30. Alabama State Treasurer Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed...