Word: glitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Menil Collection, which opened in June, houses the works assembled over the past 45 years by Dominique de Menil and her late husband John, who was chairman of Schlumberger, the giant oil-field services company. Through the '70s, as American museum and collecting habits became encysted with hoopla, glitz and architectural manipulation, Dominique de Menil remained absolutely committed to the ideal of art as art, of a museum whose discretion and neutrality would release the eloquence of the work it contained...
Turning to internal business, the assembly voted to move the church's headquarters from New York City and Atlanta to Louisville. The head of a site % committee, which had selected Kansas City, glumly eyed the Louisville lobbyists' brochures and gift baseball bats and grumbled, "Glitz and hype carried the day." Not exactly. To gain 900 Presbyterian jobs and a $32 million payroll, the Kentuckians will give the church a downtown building virtually free...
...into the blues tradition than the abstractly felt social issues of their youth. And being the ones who led the '60s revival in the first place, they don't rely on anyone to revive them. Their rollicking blend of country-western and cajun blues stands on its own, without glitz...
...sort of aristocratic elan that only technically strong performers can muster. The character dances and, above all, the mime are alien to many young performers, particularly Americans. Finally, the overall production needs a beneficent fairy of its own; The Sleeping Beauty is a miracle of scale and symmetry; glitz or vulgarity or plodding pedantry will turn it into a long night indeed...
During an interview, Howard is dressed modestly, wearing a brown tweed jacket, striped tie, butten down shirt and khaki pants. His hunched posture downplays his six-feet six-inch frame. His appearance is Eastern preppy, rather than Hollywood glitz...