Word: glittering
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Rudenstine said that neither the gloom of yesterday nor the glitter of today will last, and that Harvard, in order to "be here forever," must plan soberly for the future and then stick to this path...
Scotto could be the D.W. Griffith of musical shorts, not so much for his story-telling vigor as for his love of racial stereotypes. He bedecks Armstrong in a leopard-skin tunic, harem pants and body glitter; he urges his black actors to grimace grotesquely and gives them fearful patois to spout ("I run until I's black in de face," says a man fleeing a Latin American revolt in the 1931 Be Like Me). He was not alone in caricaturing African Americans. Crosby, whose crooner inflections owed much to black musicians, wears blackface in the 1932 Dream House...
Twinkle, twinkle. The tiny white lights glitter in the ficus trees by the pool at Skybar in the Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles' latest shrine to the good life. At 10 o'clock on a weeknight, poolside is alive with people drinking and smoking and looking superb. Some are rich, but many more are having fun pretending. Five years after rioting tore this city apart, they are lounging on huge, posh communal beds, sipping their drinks, floating in the bubble of this long good run and wondering, some of them, when it will burst. They thought the crunch was coming when...
...whose hair is streaked with orange, is wearing boldly-striped bell-bottoms, a zippered shirt and glitter on his eyelids...
...entrance: WOODY HARRELSON, who pulled up in a white stretch limo painted with naked women. He was accompanied by LARRY FLYNT, who had earlier been denied a ticket. Harrelson, resplendent in an Armani tuxedo made of hemp (although it looked like every other tux), got Flynt in. Flynt's glitter-encrusted tux, meanwhile, didn't look like anyone else...