Word: glitterful
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...movie is no more than another Hollywood spectacular, all the show and the glitter, the gold and the tinsel, all sunbursts and exploding skies. It tells a good story with lots of yummy mush and death to boot; it's a nice little Hollywood bit. It runs just like an American beauty pageant, stargazing from start to finish. From the first laborious pan over Gatsby's shining bedspread the movie shows off its affects. Come, you are cordially invited, to this miracle of Gatsby masquerading...
...crazy-quilt pop era that salutes everything from transvestite glitter and sadomasochism to Rocky Mountain fresh air and the Andrews Sisters, Wonder has managed the considerable task of establishing himself as both a hot commercial property and an authentic voice. Being black, blind and up from poverty entitles him, of course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield...
...National Basketball Association playoffs start today. Thirty thousand dollars glitter at the end of the road. Each player doesn't just want a chunk of it; he wants it all. Eight teams are fighting for the prize...
...Jones, the ex-World War II corporal and veteran of the watch on Waikiki and Guadalcanal, is no longer disturbed by the glitter of military brass. With a large talent for observation and characterization he is able to separate individuals from the moral horrors of the war. He is also an unabashed admirer of the kind of machismo and professionalism displayed by U.S. officers in Viet Nam, who went out of their way to ferry him to locations from which regular reporters were barred. Jones was fortunate in having as an old social contact a general who pulled the strings...
...generation of activists grew apathetic: the old spirit of Dylan and Joan Baez seemed to have evaporated. The stage was taken over by a capering rearguard of glitter rockers, demonists and hip vaudevillians...