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...style. One would like to think that when a film embraces the conventions of 1950s imagery (blasted tree trunks standing starkly against a battlefield's orange sky, gauzily veiled glimpses of, yes, dens of iniquity) and symbolic set decoration (the wretched excesses of an aesthete's salon contrasted with the too tasteful austerity of an intellectual's garret), it intends an ironic comment on how Hollywood once tried literally to gloss over what it thought of as big, discomforting ideas. But such charity is drowned out by an insistently romantic score, by the screech of the melodramatic...
Customers at the Stardust Beauty Salon in Dubuque, Iowa, used to laugh at it, and Owner Carolyn Fandman called it "mouse." Now, she says, "they're coming in with no appointment at all just to buy it retail." What has Dubuquers, along with millions of people from Boston to Beverly Hills, so lathered up? Mousse, of course...
Mousse came along in time for the shorter, sculpted styles of the 1980s, which require more control than did the straight cuts or frizzy perms of the past decade. Cropped shapes are the rage at New York City's Kenneth salon, where some 500 customers are moussed each week. Says Owner Kenneth Battelle: "It adds structure to that particular look." Mousse also spruces up older styles. Neinast did two mousse make-overs of Actress Susan (Dallas) Howard's long, flyaway tresses. The result: "a tousled and layered look that's fuller...
...industry noted for fast fads, mousse is holding on. Some projections say it may be a half-billion-dollar market in a few years and could sell as well as conditioners. Mousse is already heady stuff among the salon set, and, says Conair Advertising Director Alan Cohen, "if the young people get hold of it, it's going to go through the roof...
Every evening, during the rounds of diwaniyas, a sort of casual salon of talk and coffee sipping that begins in the late evening, the Kuwaitis ponder their uncertain future. Says one politician: "We fear that Kuwait's freedom will be the victim of these attacks on our tankers." But it is more than just Kuwaiti freedom that is at stake. It is Kuwait itself. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Kuwait and Johanna McGeary/Washington