Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would need better actors than these to turn this sickly Shakespearian failure play into something with the slightest dramatic appeal. The Huntington Theatre Company's production of Cymbeline, with its crude Celtic glamour and fairytale ending, never rises above melodrama...
Director Kathryn Bigelow is Hollywood's suavest young stylist. Trained as a painter, she brings glamour, precision and thrill to every image. This film, bound as it is by action-movie conventions, hasn't the originality of her stunning horror drama Near Dark, and toward the end Blue Steel spins goofily off track. But it has a handsome time getting there, propelled by Curtis' sensible sensuality and Silver's bravura creepiness. These two help dramatize the danger any woman can find in the desperate intimacy of a big city. By the climax, Megan has to be thinking of Eugene...
...profile of a '60s Caddy, bulbous with fins, and in the lower right a red X depicting a pair of chopsticks. Nothing else. One is not much helped by the otherwise useful catalog essay of Ned Rifkin, to whom, it seems, Moskowitz "revealed that the Cadillac might represent Hollywood glamour and the car culture of the West Coast, while the chopsticks could allude to a New Yorker's love of Chinese food." No kidding. This, you could say, looks like art history at the end of its rope...
...company, Guyrex Associates, oversees the Texas and California state franchises of the Miss USA competition as well as dozens of local pageants. Guy and Holt also serve as coaches and consultants to the young women as they strive for loftier titles. Says Holt: "We're selling a total product: glamour and all that goes with...
Sullivan, by contrast, was always too much the glamour girl, as well as prone to gaffes both on and off the air. (An open microphone once picked up $ her off-camera reference to CBS as the "Cheap Broadcasting System.") And Norville, even without the controversy that attended her rise, seems too brittle and pushy for her gentle morning duties. She comes across as the executive secretary whom everybody in the office hates dealing with...