Word: glamourization
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...special place in his heart—via the Pierre Menard Gallery. Featuring two paintings of the Weld Boathouse, the exhibition could be viewed as Hannah’s own childhood travel journal, a series of images from his past. “I was always attracted by the glamour and sophistication of the East Coast,” Hannah says. Though a Midwest native, Hannah traveled to the East Coast several times in his youth and often made visits to Harvard. His father, James B. Hannah, to whom the exhibit is dedicated, graduated from the College...
...favorite targets, however, were celebrities like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Britney Spears, who he felt lacked any innate sense of style or glamour. He said his criticism had nothing to do with talent and once remarked that Meryl Streep looked like a "gypsy abandoned by a caravan...
...communist sympathies to act against a quasi-fascist military government. In films like “Breathless” and “My Life To Live,” the protagonists are young, bored, and otherwise desensitized by a culture supersaturated with highly stylized images of luxury and glamour. Godard explores this self-referential obsession with American cinema and culture, while simultaneously parodying it—several of these protagonists meet with violent, seemingly absurd, ends.Today’s popular cinema seems to view Godard’s work with a mixture of voyeurism and cultural amnesia...
...Rubies” section of George Balanchine’s full-length plotless ballet “Jewels.” Considered the crown of Balanchine’s jazzy, bold, American-inspired works, it fits its Stravinsky score like a glove. Misa Kuranaga absolutely nailed the glamour, sexiness, and sophistication the pas de deux demands, adding just the appropriate amount of vulgar. Her flawless technique and assured assimilation of the role originated by Patricia McBride was aided by James Whiteside’s able partnering. Whiteside later appeared in “Ein Von Viel...
...mystery by go-to Brit character actor Mark Strong), and at the beginning he helpfully deciphers the movie's title: a higher, more voracious strain of London gangster. "We all like a bit of the good life: some the money, some the drugs, other the sex game, the glamour or the fame. But a rocknrolla, oh, he's different. Why? Because a real rocknrolla wants...