Word: glamourizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beyond the innate glamour of the industry, two things little known to the man on the street encourage these amateur Loews to enter the world of cinema. "It's the free pizza and free passes to all the house movies," says Gallagher...
...founded; the following year Hill's testimony resulted in a string of convictions. The canary later sang to Nicholas Pileggi, a veteran journalist, in various secret locations around the U.S. The result, told largely in Hill's words, has the sound and horror of authenticity, The Godfather minus the glamour. There is no rich, family feeling here, no accretion of loyalties and vendettas. There is only the nostalgia of a successful sociopath for a lawless past. "Truckloads of swag. Fur coats, televisions, clothes--all for the asking," the thug recalls. "When I was broke I just went out and robbed...
...Lord has certainly been smiling on Whitney Houston. The daughter of Gospel Legend Cissy, Whitney, 22, began as a model six years ago, and her face had already graced the pages of Seventeen, Glamour and Vogue when she decided last year to follow in her mother's vocal tracks. The result has been nothing less than glorious. Her strong and silky voice has made her first album, Whitney Houston, a best seller for 46 weeks. Last week at the American Music Awards, Houston won for best rhythm-and-blues single (You Give Good Love) and best R.-and-B. video...
...real need. Very little of substance has been written about couturiers. Most of the best commentary on their work is squirreled away in novels: Proust's chronicling of the shift from Belle Epoque bustles to the more natural silhouette, Fitzgerald's and Waugh's pointillist evocations of '30s glamour, Mary McCarthy's accurate, often satiric eye for all feminine strategies...
...most sophisticated of photographers, Avedon would be the last to claim that his pictures are the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. He expects no one to believe the glamour-drenched fantasies he constructs for his fashion pictures. But he also knows that in taking a camera out among ordinary people, he raises expectations of more resolute truth telling. Avedon is throwing those expectations back in the viewer's face. Sometimes it takes a fashion photographer to show that "realism" is art's subtlest cosmetic...