Word: glamourizing
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...Stone's glamour spilled off the screen - her old-fashioned beauty, of course, but also the devouring eyes and grown-up voice, and her evident pleasure in being watched. It was that evening in the Palais (and remember, I'd seen Basic Instinct at a critics' showing in New York) that I became convinced of what I still believe: that Stone is one of the few people in the post-Golden Age era who deserves that venerable epithet "movie star...
...TIME.com, I speculated about Ocean's Thirteen: "If Take 3 is a reasonable facsimile of its predecessors, it will be like one of those elite parties you're dying to attend because of the killer guest list; then you get in and find that, for all the star glamour in evidence, the ambiance is somehow... lacking." Turns out my hopes were too high. It's as if the whole enterprise were running on battery power that was about to give out. The five big stars can't shake the movie's infectious lethargy, and some of the others, like...
...Glamour Magazine selected Meghan Pasricha ’08 as a finalist in its Top 10 College Women award, adding the junior to a long list of Harvard and Radcliffe women who have been honored in the contest’s 50-year span. The June issue of Glamour, on newsstands now, features a photo and short profile of each finalist, along with a short blurb about her highlighted social cause. Pasricha was chosen for her efforts campaigning against youth smoking. Glamour donates $2,500 to a charity of each finalist’s choice, and gives the finalists themselves...
...sort of people: fatalistic men and moody women who, for a poignant, painful, precious few moments, connect. He cocoons these beautiful losers in his distinct visual-emotional style. The mix of cigarette smoke and step-printed slow motion, furtive glances and liquored wisdom, lends ordinary anguish an almost majestic glamour...
...theme does emerge: of social change in America, from before the First World War to after the Second. Along with the love songs and star turns, Stairway has Depression dirges ("Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime"), war anthems (Berlin's, of course) and songs of social significance. But glamour drove the old Ziegfeld revues, and glamour at Encores! is not skin but star quality. The star here is Kristen Chenoweth, that petite package of pyrotechnics who has wowed Broadway in Wicked and, this season, in The Apple Tree (a production that originated at Encores! two years ago). Whether flaunting...