Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only natural causes could bring him down. The man with the leprechaun twinkle and the fireplug build was impossible to dislodge. A dinosaur in the age of the new politics, he proved far more durable than the glamour boys who had pronounced his methods dead...
...John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion had the clever notion of resetting this story in the rock world, where heady glamour and careening careers furnish the closest contemporary equivalent of the Hollywood flush years. Barbra Streisand and her inamorato Jon Peters weighed into the project as Dunne and Didion drifted away. Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters...
...SOUR MESSAGE finally becomes clear: although the glamour has gone and the social thrust flagged, Belmondo can't get the criminal act out of his system. It may not show on his depressed face, but he needs the rush. How in the world Malle conceived the idea to weigh down such a juicy theme and such dashing actors with such a heavy moral remains unclear. But there it is. Le Voleur plays like the flip side to Malle's Lacombe, Lucien. Lacombe made us deal with a young man's value-free drift into collaboration with the Nazis--it showed...
...study of a large group of compounds known as boranes doesn't have the glamour of medical research or the mystique of the theory of relativity. Lipscombe's work, however, was fundamental because it answered questions about the basic and formerly unknown nature of a large group of chemical bonds...
...spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make-believe no to the glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved...