Word: polaroiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what they are paid for is to make polyester look like silk. A face that Botticelli would have admired helps a great deal, and after an hour at the makeup table Clotilde has drawn one on herself, cooked her long brown hair in curlers and As Photographer Watanabe shoots Polaroid stills to test the light and color, Clotilde waits. Like all the real pros, she is good at waiting. She daydreams of Paris, where she keeps an apartment. She sees herself doing the spring collections, "and Yves St. Laurent himself is tying my ribbon, and I'm going down...
Silverman did urge the hiring of Actress Mariette Hartley, best known for her sassy role opposite James Garner in the Polaroid commercials. She was brought in last summer to substitute for Pauley, who was getting married to Cartoonist Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury). Though no one said as much, it seemed clear that if Hartley had done well, the job might have been hers. She did not impress NBC, however-the result of sabotage from the staff, according to Hartley-and Pauley's contract was extended three years...
...bride of 22 going on eleven. She heartbrokenly announces that Nora is having an affair with her husband Peter. Peter (David Rasche), a multimillionaire, "is rich for a living," and he must have spied Carrie from his private jet, since he could scarcely have been smitten by her at Polaroid range...
...respectively and wonderfully, Nickleby and the orphan Smike, are the only two actors in the piece with only one part to play. All the others average six: usually two major roles and a gallery of minor parts. R.S.C. Designer John Napier, who made all the costumes, took Polaroid photos for reference and found at the end that he had assembled an album of 271 individual shots, which included all the named characters plus extras in the crowd scenes...
...cold. Shares of Genentech are expected to go on sale soon on the over-the-counter market, and investors are queuing up to buy what some believe will be one of the strongest new issues of the '80s. A few brokers are already touting Genentech as the next Polaroid or Xerox. Says Financial Analyst Peter Smith of E.F. Hutton: "The expectations of the people doing research are mighty exciting. But for now we are selling sizzle-there is no steak around...