Word: blonds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life or death thing," says veteran hair sty;ist Jessica L. Baer of Diego's at the Loft. Jesse, who herself sports a most stylish 'do--dyed a streaked blond and chopped at ear level with whimsical little sideburns--says her clients tell her that "it's like they're going to die if they don't get the right haircut...
...cannot help feeling marginal, neither sharing in the borderless bounty of the E.C. nor joining the Japanese in their shopping-bag odyssey of the great boutiques of Europe. But then an Italian newsstand beckons -- and suddenly it's the American Century all over again. Who is that carefully coiffed blond woman staring intently from the cover of a glossy Italian magazine? A Roman film star? Princess Di? No, it's Hillary Clinton. Newspaper headlines in four languages refer familiarly to a global personality instantly recognizable as just plain "Bill...
THEY ARE A STRANGE QUARTET: THE sensitive IRA gunman (Stephen Rea) and his brutal blond colleague (Miranda Richardson); the gentle English soldier they take hostage (Forest Whitaker) and the love he left behind (comely newcomer Jaye Davidson). In THE CRYING GAME, Irish writer-director Neil Jordan spins his had-I-but-known plot twists from Belfast to London. By the end of this devious thriller, just about everyone has had to point a loaded gun at just about anyone else he or she might have cared for. In a style of agitated naturalism, Jordan (Mona Lisa) examines poignant matters...
These sly borrowings, more evident than ever in this fourth of the author's vampire tales, have worked brilliantly. We're absolutely convinced, for instance, that Rice's star, the blond, handsome vampire Lestat, is exactly the 200-year-old bloodsucker he claims to be. He was the dark eminence in Rice's first chronicle, Interview with the Vampire, and his monstrous self- fascination has taken over succeeding narrations. Lestat is something of a windbag, alternately luxuriating in the dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs...
...roles, ranging from the piggy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging to what's left of his machismo...