Word: chameleon
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...time, usually over drinks in a dimly lit room. But in a few rare instances, it actually happens. A select group of photographers and magazine editors has the power to turn a wallflower into a princess. New York photographer Steven Meisel became instrumental in developing Evangelista's chameleon-like ability to reinvent herself constantly as a model. (Jose Fonseca, a partner of the British agency Models1, calls her "the Madonna of the modeling world.") For example, first Meisel shot her with a broad smile, then somber; each time she looked different. Result: some 60 magazine covers for Evangelista...
Clinton will make a strong run for President. But it won't be the real Bill Clinton. It will be the '90s Democrat, the new South moderate, the chameleon for the White House. Don't be fooled...
Some detractors describe Gates as a "chameleon" who, like Magnus Pym, the sociopathic protagonist of John le Carre's The Perfect Spy, finds it easy to match his coloration to whomever he needs to please. And while his friends disagree, they add wryly that it's better to have Gates as an employee than as a boss...
...this unfettered ambition, which, along with his right-wing politics, is about the worst trait anyone pins on him. He made some enemies when he took over National Lampoon. "He went from combat boots to two-tones over a weekend," says former Lampooner Sean Kelly, who calls him a chameleon. But even Kelly concedes a grudging respect for O'Rourke's success. Although Koreans are still smarting from his essay that described them as "hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia,' " O'Rourke bristles at charges of racism and sexism, claiming he spares no group, including...
...Kazan and director Barbet Schroeder have woven a cunningly old-fashioned artifice -- a drawing-room comedy with a toxic tinge ^ -- told from three points of view. Alan (Ron Silver) is the detective, groping for a truth he may never know or, knowing, accept. Claus (Jeremy Irons) is the cagey chameleon, resigned to a notoriety he also enjoys. "I'm wondering," Alan muses, "who you are," and Claus replies, "Who would you like me to be?" And Sunny (Glenn Close) relates her own version from the hospital bed where she vegetates -- the most audacious narrative device since Sunset Blvd.' s story...