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...Fields, Ltd., which makes Tinkerbell products. Danielle, he contends, is more wholesome than sexy. Says Danielle: "Brooke's style sells, but I'm not like her." Tinkerbell launched the children's beauty-aid business nearly 30 years ago, but it has always refused to sell eye shadow and rouge, which it considers improper for young girls...
Terrible ironies haunt the history. Fourth of July celebrations were bravely held behind barbed wire, in the shadow of sentry towers. Parents wasting away in tar-paper camp shacks proudly displayed starred banners indicating that their sons were American soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought gloriously in Europe, were sometimes required to have Caucasian escorts when they visited their interned families. (About 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during the war, some of them drafted right out of the camps.) After the war, many of the detainees found...
...limelight of fame casts its deepest shadow on those who stand next to it. That is Playwright Furth's proposition in this crackling light comedy. In a belated bid for personal visibility, Ellen (Hope Lange) has written an intimately detailed roman à clef profiling her Pulitzer-prize winning (Presidents and Precedents) novelist husband and a quartet of her best friends...
...Majesty's subjects who, out of rage and frustration, have been rioting in the streets, burning cars, looting stores and combatting the police. The month past has seen the worst outbreak of violence in Great Britain in a century, which has cast a long and smoky shadow over this splendid national occasion...
...dashed off vitriolic criticism to academics became compassionate when everyday folk asked for spiritual advice. To a German prisoner contemplating suicide: "Regarding your prayers. How do you know they are in vain? God has his own time, and he may well know the right moment to lift the double shadow that now lies over your life...