Word: glamourizing
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...Notebook Glamour in San Francisco, cookbooks and fashion books. Plus, Canada's hot architects, best-selling handbags and why fashion and politics...
Less is more? For much of the 20th century, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's famous formulation was a guiding principle of design and not just for architects. But even when pared-down Modernism was at the height of its prestige, there was a countertradition of glorious excess. "Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture," an exhibition that runs from Oct. 9 through Jan. 16 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traces an aesthetic of surplus and superabundance that continually bursts forth in clothing, buildings, automobiles and objects--a taste for luxury, spectacle and even pure, shameless glitz that...
...Candrea had a second premonition before the game. His hunch told him that although three-time Olympian Lisa Fernandez had pitched against Australia the night before, she, not glamour-girl Finch, would get the start. The choice might have upset male viewers, but it worked out flawlessly on the field. Painting the corners and mixing in a wicked changeup, Fernandez pitched a four-hitter, at one point retiring 18 straight batters...
...company. Sheldon Adelson, the 70-year-old owner of the Venetian, is contemplating an IPO to score some cash to make a bigger bet on a new Strip hotel, the Palazzo, and other properties in the U.S. and overseas. In April, Steve Wynn, 62, the man who brought renewed glamour to Vegas in the 1990s with the shimmering-sided Mirage and then the Continental swank of the Bellagio, will open the $2.6 billion Wynn Las Vegas. It's just a construction site, but Wynn's creation is scaring all his competitors, with its plans for a 15-story mountain...
...hear the blaring music that's on the main casino floor," Pestrichello says. "And purple felt on the tables - I wouldn't rule it out." Affleck, who also plays poker in Los Angeles, feels Las Vegas has a special charm. "The appeal of casinos is that there's some glamour and some seediness," he says. "Both those things appeal to something fundamental in the American psyche." He favors the high-stakes games at the Bellagio, which he calls "the premier room, the biggest, most respected place to play: it's the Taj Mahal of poker." Pretty classy image there...