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...organization, Gorbachev has been able to increase his sway throughout the bureaucracy and fill the key positions of the institution with officials from his own generation. Indeed, Gorbachev finds the position so pivotal that he is said to prefer to work out of his office in the gray and pastel green Central Committee building on Old Square, rather than his more prestigious Politburo quarters in the Kremlin...
...There are sturdy, dishwasher-safe porcelain plates ($46 to $145 each), full-lead crystal bar-and stemware ($35, $36) and silver-plate candlesticks and bowls ($125 to $350). The collection shuns traditional five-piece place settings for eclectic offerings. There is, for instance, Venturi's complex "Grandmother," a pastel floral print overlaid with bold black dashes. "Miami Beach," by Spear, a partner in Florida's brash Arquitectonica firm, mixes soft-colored blobs and a bright red bar. Chicago's Tigerman, known for his theatrical home designs, created "Sunshine," in which bold colors interplay with a cartoon-cute...
...projects a prancing menagerie of lions and tigers and bears. A poor of light, lit from below the stage, suggests a woodland stream around which the overhead-lighting throws a sun-dappled forest floor. The fragile nobility of the two stags, with their breathtakingly lovely coats of the palest pastel, steal the forest show...
There is nothing pastel or pale about Gloria Allred. From her jet-black hair to her brilliant red lipstick to her usual attire of electric purple or Chinese-red dresses, she is as brightly colored as her name suggests. But there is a lot more to this Los Angeles attorney than vivid packaging. By adroitly combining showy tactics and solid scholarship, Allred over the past ten years has become one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes. Declares Allred: "The law should be a sword and shield against the wrongs that women...
...film provides an obligatory cast of conventional characters. Claire(Carrie Fischer) is Gilly's indulged, Beverly Hills wife. Fischer, dressed in pastel, silk dressing gowns, is tight lipped and affected. Needless to say she doesn't approve of her eccentric mother-in-law. Her lack of empathy makes Gilly turn to Jane(Catherine Hicks), an aspiring actress, who does deep breathing and tells Gilly about her sexual fantasies on the elevator at work. Claire's spoiled, Jane's daffy, and the result is facile...