Word: glitterful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975 (Harcourt Brace; 412 pages; $34.95) reveals just how much these two passionate minds had in common. To begin with, both thought the literary world a circus. The pages glitter with mad poets, deceitful lovers, long-suffering wives and natural-born snobs. The widow of George Orwell is quoted as having said, "Auschwitz, oh, dear no! That person was never in Auschwitz. Only in some very minor death camp...
...certainly fun to watch, but with the investigative depth of Altman's previous "Nashville" and "The Player" exposes only that (Surprise!) the fashion industry is filled with lots of shallow, glamorous people. Altman is simply overwhelmed by the chaos, running to and fro with his camera to catch the glitter...
...Johnny Morina), a 10-year old boy surrounded by a halo of pure innocence. Lavin is a tyrant of the priesthood--in his black robe, he is a model of pathology and pure evil. Czerny's performance in the role is nothing less than stellar--as his steely eyes glitter, he brings to light both the calculated ruthlessness as well as the moments of ferocious anger in this complex character. Silent and introspective, Kevin is the perfect victim and foil for this brutal priest. The bruises which appear on the young boy's face become a map with disturbing clues...
...only one. The Times' Frank Rich has called O.J. "a self-perpetuating cultural industry, with tentacles reaching into every branch of show biz." Where there is show-biz, there are bound to be glitter-seekers. A woman who lied about seeing O.J. at the murder scene made more than $10,000 from a tabloid show. Other sleazy tabloids will pay anyone remotely associated with O.J. or his ex-wife to tell them a story. Whether these tales are based in reality or in their own money-hungry delusion is another issue. Jurors, if selected, could refuse to support a majority...
...remainder of the album, Upshaw reveals that she is equally at home in less sentimental moods, skillfully handling, for example, the cynical extravagance of Bernstein's Glitter and Be Gay (from Candide). Only in I Feel Pretty, from West Side Story, does she seem outside the song, pushing its innocence too hard. Otherwise, she conveys what the best singers have always strived for: the sense that a song springs directly from mysterious promptings within...