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...works since last December, the really convincing facsimile comes replete with photos and graphics in pretty pastel colors. One sure-fire knee-slapper depicts Sigourney Weaver being attacked by a killer sock puppet in a clip from "Aliens." Another guaranteed yuck-getter details the wide variety of things athletes stick up their noses...
Seductive and streamlined, painted with a pastel palette of flamingo pinks, pale yellows and cool blues, the tropical art deco buildings of Miami Beach delight the eye and invite the viewer to contemplate a jazzier age, a futuristic past. For years, preservationists fought developers who thought it necessary to demolish the city's past in order to define its future. A step toward protecting those confectionary creations was taken on July 9, when the city commission created two historic districts encompassing the greatest concentration of art deco buildings along the south beach section, a once glitzy tourist mecca that...
...Dressing Up. When Michael Scott Kirshe married Suzanne Patrick on May 24 in Sudbury, Mass., he and his four ushers were suited up in pastel tuxes by Miami Vice for After Six. Scott even gave his ushers Ray-Ban Wayfarers to complete the image. But, of course, no one is much interested in the bridegroom's plumage. This is the bride's day to be resplendent, assuming that the unthinkable has not happened, and her gown has not arrived late. Philip Youtie offers a stirring evocation of the pressures under which he and all his colleagues labor: "The ambulance...
Location is as important to detective fiction as it is to the real estate business. The glitz centers of the Sunbelt offer the irresistible drama of drug traffic played against a background of pastel, stucco and palm fronds. Joseph Hansen (Fadeout, A Smile in His Lifetime, Gravedigger) offers an alternative to the macho, down-at-the-heels stereotype. He is David Brandstetter, a Southern California insurance investigator who is affluent, well dressed and homosexual. This subgenre is bicoastal; see George Baxt's novels, beginning with A Queer Kind of Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective...
...performances of Green and Sheen are realistically delivered in the understated tones of actual high school life, forming a soft pastel backdrop for the sharp eccentricities of co-star Haim. In one sense the movie is about the resolution of these oppositions in character, of the maturing awareness of Cap and Maggie, and Lucas' discovery of acceptance and the joys of youth...