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Fashion is painful. Women suffer pinching, scratching, binding, twisting in the name of chic. Push-up bras give you the lush bosom of the '90s, but the underwire cuts into your rib cage. Panty hose are hot and, frankly, sweaty. High heels give your hips an alluring tilt, but after a 10-minute walk, your feet scream. Short skirts are young and kicky. But how young do you want to look when you can't sit comfortably...
...design, as outlines for trees and riverbanks. His vision was limited by the few kinds of glass commercially available, so he invented and patented his own brand, called Favrile glass. By 1900 he boasted that he could call on 5,000 colors and effects to reproduce "the vast, teeming bosom of nature...
...know a man is more than the sum of the calamities that have befallen him. Herman is a victim, not just of the Nazis, but of his own demons as well. And he is lucky, or doomed, to find three superior women who want to crush him in the bosom of their devotion...
...moguls hated movies where people wore powdered wigs and wrote with feathers. So this film's first images should set the old bosses spinning in their mausoleums. A gentleman's peruke is affixed, a lady's bosom powdered. But this gentleman, the Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich), is an icy defiler, and this lady, the Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close), secretes contempt under her frozen smile. Among the French aristocracy just before the Revolution, she is the stage manager of affections and deceptions, he the lickerish snake who literally hisses at his adversaries. Their cruel games will lead them...
Admittedly, this mother's request was unusual. But Stern's seven-year-old Chicago company, Personal Profiles, takes most problems to its bosom in its quest to find a spouse for each of its 1,650 clients, ranging from architects and artists to lawyers and engineers. This is not your matchmaker of old, Yente of Fiddler on the Roof or the garrulous busybody of Crossing Delancey, the sort of woman who knows her potential lovebirds like a good breeder knows horseflesh. Stern, who is a svelte 39, says her matchmaking is far more sophisticated and scientific; more, she says, like...