Word: saran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatives fatuously assure one another that her self-abasing behavior is a phase she will outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...
...like Stalin's Russia or the British welfare state, where everything is planned but nothing quite works. A Rube Goldberg spy machine kibitzes with a roving bloodshot electronic eye, then wheels away in a deranged gait. Giggling plastic surgeons do their "snip snip slice slice" with metal clamps and Saran Wrap. Sam and a man in the next office share a desk that each keeps yanking through his own side of the dividing wall. Every romantic impulse is stifled by the system's suffocating incompetence. In one poignant scene, Sam descends in an open elevator and ecstatically spots Jill...
...photo sessions and interviews that come with her crown. "For me, Miss America is the ultimate," says Akin, who has participated in at least 100 professional beauty pageants since the age of five. She has picked up a few expert techniques along the way. She shrink- wrapped herself in Saran Wrap for three or four nights before one competition last year ("You lose a little bit of water"), and has used an athletic adhesive called Firm Grip to keep the bottom of her bathing suit in place ("Everybody uses it. I'm so firm I don't need much...
Immigrants struggling to make good in the U.S. often express dismay at what they see around them. "Many American values and customs which are very much part of the American way of life are seen (by Indians) as 'evil,' " writes Parmatma Saran, associate professor of sociology at Baruch College in Manhattan. "The American attitude toward sex . . . is viewed as immoral." Gaspar Ortega, a onetime Mexican prizefighter who is now a social worker in New Haven, Conn., is concerned about American treatment of the family. "I get disgusted when I see families separated. I blame the pressure of the dollar when...
...Shakti Saran Allston, Mass...