Word: glamourously
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...grid, minutes before the start of a British Grand Prix in August, the drivers' faces are grim with concentration. The pre-race interviews are over, and the glamour models in hotpants are tottering off the circuit. Fans are screaming from a packed grandstand. Squeezed into his driving seat, wearing a red, white and yellow jumpsuit and white helmet, Trevyn-Jay Nelson is pulling on a pair of tight black gloves. No question where he's expecting to finish: "First," he says before flicking down his gold visor. At the start signal, with a burst of engine noise, the drivers dart...
...imitating Hollywood and British genres: the Biblical epic turned into the sword-and-sandal muscleman movies, the sex-charged Hammer and Corman-Poe horror films made into even more erotic thrillers. For ordinary moviegoers of the 60s, the phrase "Italian films" did not conjure up Fellini, Antonioni and the glamour of alienation. It meant vigorous ripoffs of English-language genre films...
Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour (Grand Central Publishing) Rachel Zoe and Rose Apodaca bring frothy celebrity looks down to earth with an accessible fashion handbook...
...many, the word batik conjures up visions of Asian-themed restaurants or ASEAN summits. To Obin, the fabric means glamour. It means stunning models sashaying down the catwalk to the music of James Brown. It suggests beautiful people and exclusive parties. How else could it be for this 52-year-old fashion designer, who is single-handedly responsible for dragging the ancient Indonesian craft into the arena of contemporary fashion...
...that red-carpet glamour, and the hope of a first look at next year's Oscar finalists, attracts audiences to the big-ticket galas and special presentations. It also lures a sizable number of other power brokers: Hollywood execs, for whom Toronto has become a crucial harbinger of the movie-award season, and U.S. film critics, avid to see grown-up pictures after a fast-food summer diet of action epics with numerals...