Word: glittering
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...reads, "Add a fun and festive air to your holiday table. Our exclusive reindeer are handmade of iron. Set of two, $29.95." Why not add the weight of a small truck to your holiday table by buying an army of 66 iron reindeer? Or, for those who like the glitter of gold and the freshness of fruit, a collection of 200 pieces of gold-painted fruit? Or the gift that keeps on giving--50 years' worth of the Museum of Modern Art's 4-foot wide `Stendig' calendar. All from Crate and Brattle, 48 Brattle Street...
...Sound familiar? It is.) It references the fall of Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Christian Collins's Shelly Levene seems inspired by the Michael Milken saga. Is this yet another latecomer in the formerly fashionable critique of the "excesses of the 1980s," or is it somehow perversely nostalgic for the Glitter Decade? Either way, Glengarry Glen Ross seems unnecessarily dated, if not outright superfluous...
...favored to do so. It slipped a few notches in the polls to sixth this past week after losing to Dartmouth and victories over 10th-ranked Clarkson (15-9-4, 11-6-3) and perennially strong St. Lawrence (16-9-3, 11-7-2) would help add a little glitter to the Crimson's tarnished reputation...
...starring Ivan Dixon (of Hongan's Heroes fame) and Abbey Lincoln, a film portraying the difficulties of family life in the segregated South. The well-developed characters showed that stories about African-Americans could be done without reducing the complexity of their lives to easy formulas. As the glitter-ridden elevator-shoed '70s dawned, the seminal "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" sparked what would become the Blaxploitation era of filmmaking. Since then, Black film has gone on to be characterized by mainstream stars such as Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and more recently by independent filmmakers such...
...version comes from a North American cast and creators, headed by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb and director Harold Prince -- the makers of Cabaret, which Kiss often recalls in its silvery visual shimmer, sexual ambiguity, bursts of surreality and blend of grim politics and show-biz glitter. But unlike Cabaret, which used a Berlin nightclub for satiric comment on the rise of the Nazis, Kiss looks to shadowy passages from old movies for sentimental uplift. They suggest that art, more than life, teaches decency and heroism...