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...appearance, an underground furtiveness crept into the air as lunch companions quickly hushed and murmured; eyes darted and honed in; people strained to look casual and turn their necks, owl-like, 180 degrees. A collective concentration fixed in on Hillary, as she stood there painfully aware of her own aura in an airy pale purple suit. She must not have been very pleased with the luncheon options, judging by the frown on her face--and I must say that I agreed with her: a chunky, dry ham and cheese sandwich and a bottle of pulpy juice just...
Demy seems to stress the over-welming aura of these females by a variety of visual tricks. Several times the women are dressed in the same garish material as the walls before which they stand, so that their bodies appear to disappear and their heads and arms seem to bob like other-worldly banshees in midair. Visual indulgences like these are the delight of Demy, whose Cherbourg is a radioactive collection of tuqouise, yellow, red and lime-green. These colors radiate from the outsides and insides of the buildings and on the clothing of every man, woman, and child...
...spawn of the indies, Quentin Tarantino. Redford had a fine, leathery hand in all that too. In '85 some 50 independent films were made; last year there were 700. They earned $735 million at the U.S. box office, nearly triple the gross in 1992. Redford's festival created an aura that welcomed young directors and persuaded Hollywood to do the same. Says indie producer John Pierson: "Sundance totally dominates the independent landscape...
Questions of character also counted. An aura of slipperiness has long dogged Peres' five-decade political career. Once a relative hawk who helped launch the very first West Bank settlements in the 1970s, Peres turned into a promoter of peace so dreamy that his about-face was read by some as proof he had no principles. Other voters were repelled by a history of devious political infighting they saw as self-serving manipulation. At home he is tagged a congenital loser, unable to secure a single unambiguous victory for Labor in four previous tries...
...aura of authority around him," says Valentina Antipova, 57, a neighbor who recalls Gennadi playing the conciliator even as a boy. "Whenever there was a quarrel, he would come out and break...