Word: glitz
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Veronica Guerin emerges under unusual auspices. Its producer is ubiquitous uber-mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, its director Joel Schumacher, a Hollywood stalwart whose work ranges from grit (Tigerland) to glitz (Batman & Robin). Screenwriters Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donaghue are also Americans. Yet the film resists the tugs of Hollywood melodrama. It builds a pyramid of culpability--the street thugs who push the drugs; the middlemen who cover their malefactions with bluff charm ("We don't sell drugs," protests one, played by Ciaran Hinds, "we're just ordinary decent criminals"); and the top dog (Gerald McSorley, stern and scary as Gilligan...
Stolid and resolute, but noticeably more distant from the public than first ladies from years past, most notably Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan, Mrs. Bush seems to embody the cold, corporate feel of the Bush administration. The Clinton era of relative glitz and glamour, with frequent trips to Hollywood and European capitals, have been replaced with sojourns to that earthy ranch in Texas, and frequent trips to electoral battleground states such as Florida and Pennsylvania. Sexy controversies like sex scandals, lying about sex and allegations of sexual misconduct have been replaced by more sober controversies like corporate scandals, lying about...
...game that was supposed to showcase the glitz and glamor of the Harvard offense, it was the defense’s crushing efficiency that stole the show...
...alliances he formed with musicians beyond country's borders. The X and next generations know his old songs as if they were standards, and his boldly simple later work--especially Hurt, which was nominated for six MTV awards--as emblems of moral and musical purity, an antidote to the glitz and aggression of teen icons. Cash made patriarchal integrity cool...
...solid-looking as pipe cleaners, others like white stockings, discarded, flung in the air, or light bedding after beauty sleep." When the King visits his Chinese mistress He Zizhen, "He touched him, and he touched He." But make no mistake. Amis is after more than just surface glitz: "After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship - marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." And: "Women wouldn't mind pornography if reproduction took place by some other means: by sneezing, say, or telepathy." Like a meaner, funnier Updike, his talent finds its fullest expression in sentences so perfect they...