Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the past decades. Growing up there in the 1950s and '60s, Versace witnessed the miserable postwar poverty that filled the streets, but could find elegance in the turquoise Strait of Messina that lay just beyond them. His was a city where Calabrian Mafiosi thrived in all their cheap glamour and children once passed the hours in ancient ruins. Versace's family home neighbored the remains of a Greek temple...
...next couple of years, he spent $6.6 million (and an estimated $32 million in renovations) on the two Ocean Drive buildings that were transformed into his Casa Casuarina residence, where his life last week came to an abrupt end. Versace's arrival brought a much hyped infusion of glamour to South Beach. Soon after he started spending time there, it was hard to stroll down Ocean Drive without stumbling upon a fashion shoot. Chic restaurants popped up, and so did more and more modeling agencies, as aspiring cover girls and boys started hanging around Versace, hoping to be discovered. (Every...
...virtually created. Now two of his films, both about moviemaking, are on view: the 1995 'For Ever Mozart' and 'Contempt,' his 1963 meditation on sex, lies and celluloid." Both newly restored after long being out of theatrical circulation, ' the releases "are worth seeing for his encyclopedic wit, the glamour of his imagery, and the doggedness of a man who won?t give up on modernism. Godard keeps searching for first principles in the pettiest human affairs. Godard gazes at the intimate and finds the infinite...
...expect it," says Doris Day, his co-star in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, "but I still can't believe it. And I can't stand it." Now only Katharine Hepburn, Stewart's blithe siren in The Philadelphia Story, is left to exemplify the glamour and idealism of Hollywood in its golden...
Stewart's appeal was the polar opposite of Cary Grant's suave cosmopolitanism or Clark Gable's rough self-assurance. Their glamour had an edge of danger to it. Theirs was a knowing wink. Stewart was safe because unknowing. He was the innocent at home...