Word: puffers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewinsky was a small fish in a big pond, but not just any small fish: a puffer fish. Whether she was demanding entry at the Northwest Gate or presuming to advise the President on political issues, she knew how to blow herself up to several times her natural size. In one blast of unsolicited advice giving, she counseled Clinton to settle with Paula Jones by using the First Lady's bruised feelings as an excuse. Lewinsky even laid out a media strategy: "Mrs. Clinton should do something publicly, maybe on a TV show or something, and talk about how difficult...
...Louganis. The big question hanging in the air last week was, What took him so long? And right below that were some others: Should he have told the International Olympic Committee in '88? Didn't he at least have a responsibility to tell the team physician, Dr. James Puffer, who stitched him up right after the accident? Why hadn't he come forward before and made himself a standard-bearer for the cause...
Also good is Christine Kienzle in the showy but tangential role of Princess Puffer. Along with Sneeringer, she is the most convincing as an actual Music Hall performer. Her accent seems the most legitimate and she belts out her few numbers with enthusiasm...
...procedure, the men in Drood are far better dressed than the women. Costume Designer Tinadetta Lee has outfitted the male characters in several splendid variations of Victorian dress--special note should be made of Jasper's splendid frock coat and purple waistcoat. Other than the gorgeous tatters of Princess Puffer, however, the women are mostly stuffed into badly tailored, frumpy dresses...