Word: glamourization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst legacy of Heaven's Gate may yet be this: that 39 people sacrificed themselves to the new millennial kitsch. That's the cultural by-product in which spiritual yearnings are captured in New Age gibberish, then edged with the glamour of sci-fi and the consolations of a toddler's bedtime. In the Heaven's Gate cosmology, where talk about the end of the world alternates with tips for shrugging off your fleshly container, the cosmic and the lethal, the enraptured and the childish come together. Is it any surprise then that it led to an infantile apocalypse...
...does LeBow feel about being the maverick who broke ranks with his peers? "I just feel like we've done the right thing," he says. "I'm not a maverick." He can deny that all he wants. But LeBow is more maverick than James Garner. He shuns glamour, preferring to invest in down-and-out companies. He has teamed up with the likes of Carl Icahn, a consummate outsider. And he doesn't mind an ugly fight...
Among the participants were Elizabeth Crow, editor-in-chief of Made-moiselle, Peggy Northrop, a senior editor of Glamour, Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News and several officials of the Harvard Eating Disorders Center...
...meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue by the power of beauty/ ...this detachment/ The honored aesthetic evil..." Dickey took on a passing Hollywood glamour in the '70s, when Deliverance became a best seller and Burt Reynolds starred in the movie...
When she's not wading through this noble sludge, Houston puts on a fine show. Lord knows she has the pipes, leading the choir or crooning a galvanic I Believe in You and Me. The pity is that Marshall believed less in movie glamour and more in plodding plot...