Word: bijou
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Livingston could have settled for the ethnographic camp of the ball contests: a gay Pumping Iron, drenched in primping irony. Instead she found eloquent people with a fine sense of their flair and vulnerability. Paris Is Burning is a bijou hit in New York City and will be elsewhere, as audiences realize that the voguers are camera-worthy not because of their flamboyance but because of their home-truth humanity. As one of them says, "You've left a mark on the world if you just get through...