Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scurrying across town to meet their wives at the skin-care salon for his-and-her noontime facials. For macho males, from Wall Street bankers to Los Angeles construction workers, a smooth, clear complexion has become as prized and pursued as a 32-inch waist and a ruddy tan...
...middle-aged man approaches the table, three stars glittering on his tan Army jacket. One of the women, a captain in the cadet Brigade, turns to greet him. After a brief exchange, the lieutenant general bends forward and kisses her affectionately on the cheek. Conversation at the table halts. After a moment, a male cadet sneers: "I bet you've never seen a general kissing an officer before, have you?" The kissed cadet is the daughter of one of the general's old Army friends...
Cafe Singer Bobby Short is master of ceremonies. Although his dandified talent is misapplied here, the songs he dusts off (Tall, Tan and Terrific, Posin ') have period charm as well as charm, period. Present-day Broadway is represent ed by Nell Carter, that kitten of brass from Ain't Misbehavin', and Tap Dancer Gregory Hines from t, a one-man funky fusillade...
...pool. All day I sat by the pool and slept, intermittently woken up by my grandmother who told me to put on suntan lotion or to turn on my stomach or to say something to prove that I was visiting her and not just there to get a tan...
Florida--where are you hiding your young people? Are they all visiting their grandparents for the break? Are they calling out the bingo numbers at night while their grandparents sit blushing in the audience? Or are they experiencing other forms of humiliation for the price of a tan...