Word: pompadour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piling up dishes, stretching pennies, squabbling over whether or not to move in with Colin's aging grandma. But Rita's only real concern is the precise shade of her hair. "They done it pink champagne instead of pink platinum," she whines, grieving over a fake-blonde pompadour that makes her look like a malicious caricature of Princess Margaret. Her young husband eventually finds more comfortable companionship with a motorcycling mate, Dudley Sutton, who all but steals the movie as a butchy, baby-faced homo in hood's clothing. In the boys' scenes together, Director Furie...
Actually, through a delicate balance of finesse and commanding personality, many Frenchwomen are already freer than the laws would indicate. Madame de Pompadour, after all, ruled France from the boudoir of Louis XV, and fully three-quarters of all French blue-collar workers voluntarily (so to speak) turn over their weekly pay envelopes to maman, who passes back a few francs for Gauloises and wine. Economically, French housewives are growing increasingly independent. With the growth in popularity of household time-savers like the automatic washer and le sandwich, some 30% of all married women find the time and energy...
...left steps to the microphone: "No doubt," he says, "some of you out there are wondering which is which " They are indeed, for Duo-Pianists Ferrante Teicher look as much alike as they Play. In their patent leather shoes electric red jackets, black-rimmed spectacles and matching pompadour toupees they are the Tweedle twins of the concert stage...
...lovers may appreciate the perky papillon, painted by Fragonard, Boucher, Velasquez and Titian. Its name derives from its butterfly-like ears. Madame de Pompadour always carried one, Marie Antoinette took hers along to prison, and Edith Wharton brought papillons to the U.S., where currently there are 158 registered...
...this seems ridiculous now, at least one potentate of the time saw things Levron's way. In 1757, Frederick II of Prussia secretly wrote offering her the "principality of Neuchatel and Val-angin" if she would see that peace was signed. Pompadour ignored...