Word: glittering
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...birds. But there were few elaborate dress-up parties and no bulging racks of greeting cards; the occasional pasteboard turkeys that appeared in stores got lost amid the Christmas lights that began winking as soon as the Halloween decorations came down. Its very lack of glitter, as Americans discovered anew last week, makes Thanksgiving the essence of what a holiday was originally supposed to be: a day primarily for family, for reunion, even for the offering of thanks...
...David Bowie, though still an artist to be reckoned with, is no longer quite the trendsetter that he was in the early Seventies. During his Glitter Rock days, Bowie was a center of personal controversy and critical scrutiny. At the moment, however, he seems to be operating outside of rock categories, releasing records very much on his own terms. His latest LP, Scary Monsters, is a continuation of his recent streak of cerebral, unsettling works which began with Low, all uniquely Bowie creations...
...That Glitter...
THROUGH THE CELLOPHASE shrink-wrap window encasing his latest release, all atweed to offset a glaring urban background, Jackson Browne seems to have exchanged "the bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge." Hold Out is here in part tostatethat "the poet laureate of California rock" has made that trade and is living up to his promise to "be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender," and in part to entreat Browne's long-time idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea...
...rock star he created Ziggy Stardust, the orange-haired founder of bisexual chic. In his 1976 film debut, he played Thomas Jerome Newton, the cat-eyed extraterrestrial of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Now, British-born David Bowie, onetime idol of the glitter set, has come in for a landing on the legitimate stage. His typically freakish role; John Merrick, the deformed central figure in that Broadway hit The Elephant Man, which opens in Denver this week. Says Bowie of his assorted personas: "It looks like I'm always going to have a physical or psychological limp...