Word: glamourization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Liberace, both flaunting and denying his gayness; hot-ticket singer-dancers like Ann-Margret; and shows with whiffy themes that existed as mere pretexts for bringing out brigades of suggestively costumed young women jiggling through clouds of pastel-colored smoke as overamped pop tunes blared. It was cheesy glamour, to be sure, but it was rare and one of a kind...
...traps." It takes her the length of the film to realize that isolation is the deadliest snare, that the only release is art and passion. But the true drama can be found in Kieslowski's meticulous images. Cool and seductive, they are the perfect frame for Binoche's harried glamour...
...deep pulse in any spectator. Our admiration segues into identification. "That's me up there," the filmgoer can believe, "me as I'd love to look, dare to act, hope to be." And for kids, always looking for lessons in moral etiquette, young actors can become the arbiters of glamour. Their bodies are temples to which anyone may bring offerings. Brat Packers' offscreen exploits fulfill a legend that fits Hollywood's melodramatic taste and tempo. They run hard, punish themselves and expect to live forever...
...writer or editor, close to 100 cover stories. It is one of the longer stints around our offices, interrupted only by what Porterfield calls his "apostasy in television" when he left to write and produce TV shows for close friend and college roommate Dick Cavett. Fortunately, when the glamour of TV wore thin, we were able to woo him back -- much to the relief of those who find his skills and dispassion a prerequisite for getting the magazine out each week. "TIME is bloody lucky to have him," says Hughes...
...smudgy, one-column figure of a girl with a beach ball advertising a resort in the Poconos, a moony frame from a romance comic. But by the time such things had been run through the loop from ad to art to ad again, they had become as invested with glamour as a photo by Avedon. The sheer pervasiveness of Lichtenstein's style rivals and maybe even exceeds Warhol's, even though, unlike Warhol, he kept his own distance from the ad industry as an artist and never offered himself to it as a celebrity. Thus for the young, Lichtenstein must...