A mound of silver curls beside a row of white tiles on a dark green background.

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Pauline Kael

He has turned almost alarmingly blond — he’s gone past platinum, he must be plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

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Our interpretation.

A jokey description of very bright blond hair. The critic says it has gone beyond platinum, so it must be plutonium, and adds that it matches his teeth. The humour is in escalating the metals and treating hair and teeth as a coordinated set.

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