Word: flash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Krayer's goal was a flash of brilliance. The biggest moment in the biggest game of a very big season...
...camera pans over an array of shiny chrome and black exercise machines, a few big brawny biceps and rippling tummy muscles flash across the screen, and the sound of clanging metal plates in the background is punctuated by not a few ominous grunts and groans. Dressed in some space-age lace leotard, Cher, lying in a sexy position on an exercise machine, comes into full view and tells you, "Face it, if a good body came in a bottle, everyone would have...
...fresh talent: dazzling designers (like the Missonis), some fine hands (like Gianfranco Ferre) and some naughty boys (like Gianni Versace). But, in Armani, it produced just a | single world beater. Paris, on the other hand, can still offer a wider spectrum: sumptuous Saint Laurent, engaging Lagerfeld, generative Miyake, fast-flash Gaultier, ebullient Patrick Kelly. As ever, it is center stage, the arena on which designers want most to play, especially if they are coming on (like Gigli) or consolidating (like Valentino...
They are easy on the ears, a test for the fingers and a balm for the spirit. With a little imagination and manual dexterity, electronic keyboards can make otherwise struggling players feel like pros. Not like Horowitz, exactly; more like Flash Gordon auditioning for a garage combo, or one of those zoological enigmas who made spacey sounds in the Star Wars saloon. Keyboards can reproduce instrument sounds, even sample sound effects (from a rain forest to a barking dog), and turn any tin ear into a one-man band...
...have each contributed a short film to New York Stories, probably , knowing as they signed their contracts that their work, when combined, would not be judged for its total effect, which is delightful, but scored like some unlikely Olympic event. One imagines reviewers grouped around the pool, holding up flash cards (9.5, 7.0 or whatever) as these men, possibly the best American directors of their generation, paddle back up to the surface after their plunge into the unfamiliar depths of the anthology film...