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...Democratic convention, then vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro stood before an audience half-filled with women, many of them crying, to accept her nomination. She wore a pastel pink suit, as if to say, “Get used to it—this is the new color of power...
...September that icon of feminine protection, Procter & Gamble's 65-year-old Tampax tampon, will shed its plain white wrapper and reinvent itself as the Tampax Pearl, with an easier-to-use, pearlized applicator decked out in a pastel wrapper that won't turn to confetti at the bottom of a purse. The intended customer, says Tampax spokeswoman Elaine Plummer, is the "joy consumer--the postpone-no-pleasure, spare-no-expense, accomplished, feminine woman who wants her tampon to be more fashion accessory than hygiene product." In other words, the woman who wants designer everything--inside...
Writer-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois give the film a lush, pastel look and rounded, black-eyed characters closer to Smurfs than to the keenly defined types of most Disney cartoons. They also borrow roughly from Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, who in My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service plopped adorable kids into magical situations. (In tribute, the film has Nani open a business called Kiki's Coffee House.) But after a lag in the early sister scenes, Lilo reveals its own very American verve and wit, along with a smart story sense that marks the best...
...favorite Harvard moment occurred in the Bahamas during Spring Break 2002. About 30 of us found ourselves in a vast resort on Grand Bahama Island with a number of cheap-o liquor stores and a bevy of buxom high school girls. We seemed sure of ourselves, strolling about in pastel Polo shirts with a few pairs of Prada sunglasses, sipping rum-and-tonics by the sea. For all intents and purposes, I think we looked pretty cool, but after the experiences of one fateful evening, we sunk into the inevitable effluvium of dorkdom. No matter how many girls sported this...
While Hagan didn’t have to learn a special dance, her debutante process monopolized a few months of her life. The summer before her sophomore year of college, she attended the Pastel Ball and then an endless stream of parties—one for each of the 20-odd debutantes. They led up to the culminating event, the Harvest Ball, held over Thanksgiving. “Some of the people were perfectly nice. Lovely manners, very pleasant. But not very interesting,” Hagan says. “I think it was that summer I developed...