Word: glamoured
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...added that another reason to volunteer was his desire for “a little glamour and adventure.” Though he found plenty of adventure, he said, the glamour “didn’t last long...
...glamour of Egypt, the mummies, the pyramids and the shifting sands ensnared Mertz, 75, when she was 13. Unlike most dreamy adolescents, she went on to earn a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago by the time she was 23. That was in 1950, when the possibility of a woman's becoming a working archaeologist seemed remote. "We took it for granted that women couldn't do some things," she says...
...they meant to be this gorgeous. Nemo, with its ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar films. The dramatic set pieces--Marlin and Dory eluding jellyfish stings, Nemo's claustrophobic panic in a plastic bag--are realized with assured energy and balanced by a dozen deft comic performances, notably those of DeGeneres and Stanton himself as the lead sea turtle. Nemo has artistic and political resonances galore: it alludes to favorite movies, from Pinocchio to Psycho, and fearlessly takes on the powerful pet-shop and aquarium lobbies. There is also the secret insignia...
...Islamabad government should end, he believes; it is to Pakistan that arms inspectors should be dispatched to head off any technological transfer from the government to radical Islamic groups. Back from his inquiries with a book on the stands, Lévy is once again ensconced in unabashed glamour on the Left Bank. He and Dombasle also own a palace in Marrakech, purchased from the actor Alain Delon. Universally known in France as BHL, he is not shy about putting himself in any available limelight, from Vanity Fair and Paris Match to the pop-culture talk show Everybody's Talking...
...actor as beautiful as Leslie Cheung? Did anyone bring to the gift of glamour the seductive insolence Leslie exuded? His first appearance in a film?his face soft and smooth, with lips that expertly puckered or pouted?had the impact of a struck match. The screen flared to life; suddenly there was heat, and the incense of sulfur. To see him as the hurtful teddy boy in Days of Being Wild, the proud warrior in The Bride with White Hair and the dominant demon romancer in Phantom Lover is to realize there's nothing more exhilarating than a trip...