Word: glitterful
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...sequins perhaps, but glitter and lots of it. Sprinkle glitter in shaker cans for the face. Plastic mirrors for bracelets. Reflecting collars, spangled spacesuits, and gloves with dog-pad mirror plates. Jobriath designs all the costumes himself. He considers the outfits an integral part...
Although David Bowie is "actually good," Todd Rundgren is your rock Stravinsky. His glitter is only skin-deep; his genius goes further...
...GLITTER TRIPPERS. Glitter stars do not seem so much to have created their fandom as to have been created by it. The fastest-growing audience in rock dotes on the finery of such brocade, sequin, mascara-and rouge-wearing performers as Todd Rundgren, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls. Occasionally a glitter singer like England's bisexual David Bowie is actually good. Mostly, though, admits the Dolls' David Johansen, "the whole glitter trip is just jive." A concert can also be simply an excuse for youngsters to come out for a reasonably harmless masquerade party...
...that would be just as revolting as anything you can get here in Harlem." No won der Adams' ideas about his art seem quite pickled in nostalgia to a generation of younger photographers whose sensibilities are roused by the urban mess, from trash to glitter. Adams' work is criticized for being indifferent to the flow of historical time and documentary "relevance," a recognized exception being the photos he took of Japanese Americans persecuted in the anti-Nisei hysteria during World...
...their skills to what they presently see as the major political and legal problems confronting the nation. "A graduate from Northeastern can do anything but go into a Wall Street firm or become a Supreme Court justice," says one first-year student. But even excluding those traditional channels, the glitter and gold of the bar offer many temptations threatening to lead a lawyer from the path toward social change. Whether or not the students from Northeastern can resist them remains to be seen...