Word: glamourized
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Teenagers (and most other people for that matter) are likely to encounter Gas Food Lodging only by chance, given its modest release pattern and the fact that it is going forth unpopulated with major stars, unequipped with big-time advertising and utterly devoid of glamour. But Allison Anders' film is like its main characters -- spunky, smart, tougher than they look -- and one wants to believe that the film, like them, will somehow make its way in an uncaring world...
...Royal Family's answer to Mother Teresa . . .Diana the Good was born." Always magic in public, Diana turned much of her attention to charities involving the suffering, the dying. Her work has transformed her image from a lovely clotheshorse to a unique figure: a woman who uses her glamour and power to help others...
...dizzying array of backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle -- 62 Olympic races in all -- the long-dominant Americans especially expected to excel in the individual free sprints, the glamour events, as if they were a birthright. The favorite: Biondi, the 1988 five-gold champion who earns six figures posing for Ray Ban sunglasses and drinking Evian water. And should the California torpedo fail, there would be ample backup on the U.S. team, including Tom Jager, the 1988 silver medalist who earns a living swimming against Biondi in exhibition races. Los tiburones yanqui -- the Yankee sharks -- the Spanish sportswriters dubbed them...
...privilege to be in the company of these four women. Like the actresses in Howards End, the quartet in Enchanted April summon bygone graces and glamour. In a raucous movie summer, this is a film for those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine, and a recollection of a time when women and movies could be purveyors of enchantment...
...result, this very real city is too often discussed as if it were a concept rather than a collection of 14.5 million inhabitants. People use the word "L.A." to conjure up any number of two-dimensional, cliched images: L.A. means the glamour and glitz of Hollywood; it means slums teeming with illegal immigrants; it means the hedonism of an appearance-obsessed culture, it means pristine beaches and smogchoked hillsides; it means a postmodern, impersonal city of intertwined freeways and grid-locked streets; it means inner cities blighted by gang warfare and Rodeo Drive...