Word: glammed
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Cambodians can be forgiven for failing to recognize a glam-rock star among them. When Gary Glitter ruled pop charts in the 1970s as the preening king of sequins, body paint and guitar riffs, Phnom Penh was in the midst of a genocidal civil war. Even if they had heard of Glitter, they probably wouldn't have associated him with the aging baldy who rented a luxury apartment in Phnom Penh six months ago. Journalists didn't spot him either, although Glitter had dinner at the riverside Foreign Correspondents Club almost every night for three weeks. Without his bouffant wigs...
...about Cornel or the plight of Af-Am at Harvard are reserved for a more earnest forum. No, when talking about race-based issues in the twenty-first century, I can’t help but rant about something a bit less important, a bit more…well, glam...
...secretary from 1942-45, who took his last will and testament in a Berlin bunker two days before he committed suicide; in Munich. Junge died hours after a documentary on her life had premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. DIED. MICK TUCKER, 54, drummer with leading 1970s British glam-rock band The Sweet, which had a string of hits with songs such as Fox on the Run and Blockbuster, of leukemia; in Welwyn Garden City, England. DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical U.S. criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about prison life were turned into a best-selling book...
...adventurous late-night use of KaZaA than any kind of hostile takeover. Even following the recent MTV-manufactured “return to rock,” the American airwaves remain inaccessible to British bands and cluttered with the bratty, pseudo-garage sounds of Sum 41, or the glam pop-rock of Nickelback and Creed...
...single table lamp; palpably romantic, it plays skilfully against the oily glaze of the casino. Soderbergh is perhaps also the contemporary director most adept at using music to underscore the tenor of his films. David Holmes’ slinky, funky score mixes with 60s swing and hints of Vegas glam, lending the film a coolly hip pulse...