Word: glamoured
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...help. In any case, a collection is not a house, and the catchpenny title "Treasure Houses"-- suggesting Palladian Fort Knoxes inhabited by Volpones from Debrett's--does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened Augustan Whigs, adored by the whole inferior creation from their wives to their dogs and filling their rotundas with the works of Claude and Praxiteles. Surely by now an American museum...
...fullest look one has yet had at this quintessential California painter. The show will travel to other museums in California and the Midwest, finishing in Kansas City in the fall of 1986. It will not be seen on the East Coast, presumably because it lacks the factitious glamour that might commend it to such institutions as New York City's Whitney Museum. Reflective art of this kind evidently cannot compete ( with toilets decorated by post-graffitists...
...Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance, which opened on Broadway last week, the structure as usual looks ambitious but the execution is sweet and simple. The opening half is a solo song cycle about a young Englishwoman (Bernadette Peters) who comes to the U.S. to pursue romance, glamour and a hard-nosed career as a hat designer. At first she is abused by men who exploit her, or treat her as another expensive toy, or shy away from commitment. Then she treats a man that way, condemns herself for it and vows to recapture her lost innocence...
Given Hollywood's current taste for Spielbergian light-and magic shows, an "actor's movie" is a dying breed. But in Kiss of the Spider Woman, a film mixing the dangerous ingredients of politics and movie glamour itself, the actors' contributions are paramount...
Tennis is incompatible with bloc politics. Its stars are individualists with styles and temperaments as distinctive as those of ballet dancers. Most important, there are millions of dollars and oodles of glamour to be had on the international tour...