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More than 1000 students filled Sanders Theater as Lampoon court jesters in pink tights and magenta-striped pants presented the three-foot "Elmer Award" to comedian Jay Leno last night...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Leno Receives Lampy Prize | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...have two sublimely eccentric moviemakers, Barry Levinson and John Waters, as native sons who sing your praises! Levinson set his two best movies, Diner and Tin Men, in the Baltimore of the late '50s and early '60s. Waters has made all eleven of his pictures, from the coprophagous comedy Pink Flamingos to the all-stinking Polyester (filmed in Odorama), in his hometown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buxom Belles in Baltimore HAIRSPRAY | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...when Tracy's mom is played by Divine, the 300-lb. actor who always looks the height of fashion in a housedress. And no sweat, Baltimore: Waters has done you proud. Watch the moon shimmer in a puddle (as a rat crawls through it). See Tracy triumphant, in her pink roach-patterned evening gown. See Hairspray too. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buxom Belles in Baltimore HAIRSPRAY | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Part of the appeal to professionals is conformity. In the cold gray dawn of corporate America's morning after, it seems rude to look rosy in pink, which, along with other solid colors, is sliding out of favor. Says Chicago Accountant Edgar L. King, 68: "We financial types have to present a good, clean look, and I've traditionally relied on the white shirt to complement that look." The white shirt's popularity stretches down the career ladder too. Two years ago Charles McCabe traded in his college jeans and sneakers for something more suited to San Francisco's vested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's Hip, It's Safe, It's Back | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...most problematic part of the Times Square redevelopment plan is the Johnson-Burgee complex, which will straddle the confluence of 42nd Street, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The planned buildings are of varying heights (29, 37, 49 and 56 stories) but otherwise identical: grand colonnades, red and pink granite, glass mansard roofs. These will be hulking structures, with more than twice the square footage of the area's current most egregious behemoth: John Portman's 50-story Marriott Marquis hotel a few blocks up Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Renewal, But a Loss Of Funk | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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