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...someone claiming to be God. Once the lights go up, the rest of the play is pure sugary sweetness. A group of overalls- and pigtail-clad performers engages in a bout of happy dancing and 100-watt smiling, not seen since Greg, Marcia and the Bunch donned the pastel bell-bottoms and harmonized to "Sunshine Day." One of the actors soon emerges with a cordless microphone and leads the rest of the group in singing the first of many toe-tapping, yet insipid songs with cheddary titles like "Learn Your Lessons Well" and "Light of the World...
...cinema avatars Melanie Griffith and Drew Barrymore. Her voice has the blithe assurance of someone who has never been told no. On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood. She's got It, and she knows how to peddle it. In this small-town, pastel-pretty version of Network, Suzanne strides toward her dream job--anchorwoman--knowing but not caring that she is resented, even hated. "I always knew who I was and who I wanted to be," she says, scarily. "Always...
...Kitaj began to draw from life with pastel, a medium particularly associated, for him, with Degas. The results fill one gallery of the Met's show, and they are works of distinction: a drawing like Marynka Smoking, 1980, is an homage to Degas's bathers that hits a fine balance between the energy of the black bounding line-wiry, emphatic-and the crusty soft bloom of light on the model's back and buttocks. Kitaj is a greedy, sexy draftsman, even when he is not drawing women. And his prehensile take on the world through drawing gives his fantasies...
Never heard of it? Ask your parents. Althoughthe company is expanding and doing better thanever, Necco hit its name-recognition peak sometimearound when our parents were developing theirfirst crushes. Every good American kid wasfamiliar with the Necco wafer; priests placed thethin pastel discs on the tongues of childrenpracticing communion. Byrd brought the wafers tothe South Pole, and Macmillan took packages ofthem on his trip to the Arctic. Necco'shoneycomb/peanut Bolster Bar preceded the BartSimpson-famed Butterfinger. Upon the 1938launching of the Skybar, "a candy box in a bar,"skywriters and low-flying planes with trailingbanner-advertisements circled most of theNortheast...
...changing character of the neighborhood is apparent from the community bulletin board: "We're looking for a creative, community-minded person who values good communication" says one notice for a roommate. Pastel papers proclaim the merits of Meditation Week activities and Seventh Heaven's Therapeutic Body-work...