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...Victorian costumes are even more wonderfully fanciful, with huge leg-o'-mutton sleeves and artificial wasp waists. Starr's character is initially decked out in a purple and hot-pink number with a flattering chignon wig and a huge hat complete with pink bird and huge ostrich feathers. Kaiser has feathers and flowers literally stemming from his hair, or possibly from his Eyrehead...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Pudding Heights | 2/21/1990 | See Source »

...what's so bad -- or good -- about Roger & Me? The film traces Moore's attempts to meet Roger Smith, the chairman of General Motors. Moore's idea is to show Smith the sagging economy and spirit of Flint, a company town ailing from thousands of GM pink slips. Between fruitless visits to Smith's offices, Moore chats with Flint's elite (seen spending a fun, fund-raising night at the city jail) and homegrown celebrities (like game-show host Bob Eubanks, who tells a joke that manages to be anti-gay and anti-Jewish). He follows the rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Michael & Roger & Phil & Flint ROGER & ME | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...Amid pink construction paper valentines taped to the tile cafeteria wall, the 85 caucus-goers massed around their slate's tables while nomination and referendum petitions circulated through the room...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: En Route to the Convention: Picking Delegates | 2/6/1990 | See Source »

...unique. Lear, for example, drops much of the high-flown language and reduces the former King's mad scenes in the storm and at Dover from symphonies to single brief movements. As played by Richard Briers, this is no autumnal monarch but a mediocre middle manager peevishly protesting his pink slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dimming Shakespeare's Glories | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...confine himself to developing Canadian real estate. The twelve board members included Albert Reichmann, chairman of Olympia & York Developments, a Canadian real estate giant that has invested $700 million in Campeau Corp. and holds a 38% stake in the company. Emerging from four days of meetings in Toronto's pink marble Scotia Plaza, the directors said they had vested control of the U.S. stores in a voting trust to be run by a board of U.S. trustees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Spell Relief? Robert Campeau | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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