Word: glittering
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...Seven Cakes), 1970-76, might seem to reflect the familiar Warholian message of pop: uniformity within glut. But no. Its target is specificity, the peculiar qualities of fluorescent light (no less difficult to convey than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing bag--and the literal work of the painter's brush...
Reagan's only public appearance of the week occurred at center stage in the Century Plaza Ballroom, amid a special combination of pomp, circumstance, and glitter befitting both his present and his past. Thursday night, the President was the main attraction at a fundraiser for the California State Republican Party...
...forces that made him so passive and world-weary at age 18. That such questions about the central character seem important is a tribute to Ellis' talent; his refusal to address them is thus all the more unsettling. In spite of its surface vitality and macabre glitter, Less Than Zero offers little more than its title promises...
...ladies is Nancy Reagan, whose $22,500 hand-beaded Inaugural gown was a Galanos creation. Diana Ross chose deep purple Galanos glitter for the Academy Awards. For evening, Galanos likes a little Dynasty-style flash--and so do his customers. For daytime, he is tasteful to the point of fusty, although he uses colors more often seen in combination on the flags of developing nations: acid green, orange, black, purple. The great Galanos secret, the almost sensual connection between him and his clients, is the inside of the clothes. Seams are bound, linings finished, and zippers and buttonholes hand...
...this glitter enchants us with its boundless imagination. But it does not amount to more than the sum of its promising parts. The film suffers from a lack of cohesion, an enchanting madness in search of a method...