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...Batman TV series, Burgess Meredith played Penguin as a kind of deranged F.D.R. This was not for DeVito. "I didn't see myself playing a weird Nick Charles with a martini glass and a tuxedo," he says. "It just didn't tickle my fancy." Then Burton showed him a painting he had done of "a toddler with a big round head and big eyes and a protrusion in the nose and mouth and a bulbous body with little appendages. And there was a caption that said, 'My name is Jimmy, but they call me the hideous penguin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

Wofford, 66, is so low-key, he doesn't wear studs on his tuxedo. When he announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat opened when Sen. John F. Heinz '63 suddenly died last May, the Republicans were overjoyed...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kennedy School Class Day Speaker: U.S. Senator Harris L. Wofford | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

When George does try to save money, itinevitably backfires on him. Instead of laying outfor an expensive Armani tuxedo at a fancy clothingstore, he buys a discount tux from a fast-talkingsheister. No difference, right? Wrong. Bigdifference. George's tux isn't even black. Ofcourse, it looked black to George, and it surelooked black to me. But everybody else can tellthat stingy George is the only character in a navyblue tux. And they go out of their way to mentionit (four, count 'em, four blue tux jokes), much toGeorge's chagrin. He shoulda known better. Georgealso skimped on parking attendants...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Father of the Bride--A Remake With Remade Message | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...next morning, Franck's constructioncrew melts the snow off the tulips with a blowdryer. The swans are given lukewarm baths and aredeclared ready to go. Sure, a beautiful weddingrequires love, but it requires swans, too. Thismakes sense in a Franckophilic world where theultimate badge of dishonor is a blue tuxedo, where"a commitment to traditional family values" costsnearly $150,000, where the ultimate moral maladyis an inability to "let go." Poor people can'trelate to these values? Well, let them...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Father of the Bride--A Remake With Remade Message | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

Since the 18th century, cuff links have been the way for a man to wear his art on his sleeve. They bring a touch of elegance to the male uniform of tuxedo or business suit. This richly illustrated book, which features cuff links ranging from the sporty -- fishing flies under crystal -- to the fanciful -- a pair of gold nuts and bolts -- will make every man yearn for French cuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Come All Ye Faithful Readers | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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