Word: pompadour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head shots taken from popular Japanese trading cards of an adolescent female theater troupe. At the top of the image, a short-haired boyish actress smiles seductively at the viewer. Below we see the same woman dressed in a tuxedo jacket and bow tie, her hair coifed in a pompadour which would have made the young Sinatra proud. Yet apart from her obvious male dress, she appears somehow more feminine, wearing eye-liner, mascara, and maybe even lip gloss as the white-paper highlights of her icy smile suggest. Garnished with a few Japanese characters, these pieces coyly play with...
...fascinating, evocative imagery, Mehta makes this a film about much more than lesbianism or even Indian patriarchy. It is perhaps the first contemporary film to attempt to describe the everyday life of India's growing middle class (which currently numbers more than 200 million) rather than Indian poverty or pompadour. The family owns a video store/restaurant and lives like 90% of the city-dwelling small business owners in India. Issues of tradition versus westernization and individuality, skillfully presented, are played out between the brothers and their wives: one haunted by tradition, one desperate to escape...
...face of a god from his Swiss-German ancestors, but he topped it with a slightly ridiculous pompadour that he wore as a chip on his brow after Washington Post cartoonist Herblock began to lampoon his hairstyle. He detested the media, yet he knew how to use them. He traveled widely, poking into English law, studying prisons, establishing a judicial-administration school. "I want to make things work right," he said when he was derided for spending too much time on the mechanics and not possessing the intellectual capacity to guide legal doctrine...
Pitts' challenge with Ronald Reagan was to bring Hollywood into the aura of Thomas Jefferson without losing individuality. He sculpted the Reagan pompadour to more modest dimensions but kept the slightly unruly wave up front, suggesting a man of flair, but disciplined. George Bush needed less attention than the others, but Pitts found that a slightly rounder cut helped soften Bush's lean face. When Bush lost the l992 election, Milt was chagrined. There had to be some other factor, he reckoned, worrying that Clinton's mod, over-the-ears hair had turned the tide, though Pitts was convinced Clinton...
...Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, which is developing a home-VR system in Princeton, New Jersey, predicts virtual game shows by 1996. How about 3-D TV? Shopping by VR? The Home Sex Network? "If someone gets there in the home with the right quality and cost," notes media investor Marty Pompadour, "it's a potential bonanza...