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...about the new, acquisitive culture suddenly exploding in the '60s, buoyed by the youthful confidence of the Kennedys' Camelot. Yanked up in voltage and turned garishly hip, Warhol's iconic images of Jackie after J.F.K.'s murder, and his tabloid pictures of cars crashed and suicides, replaced dignity with glitz, marrying starstruck glamour to grisly death. Nothing since has seemed so electric and shallow, so perfect a mirror of what was happening to the state of America's spirit. The soulfulness of Pollock and the other Abstract Expressionists never stood a chance after Warhol--and no radical art movement...
...Bridge. James Carpinello, as Tony, doesn't have a voice to swoon over, but he's got the moves, while Orfeh (just the one name, thank you) is a husky-voiced stunner as Annette, the good girl who wants to be bad. There's some grit along with the glitz--a guy commits suicide, a girl is gang-banged in the backseat of a car, and the hero's big victory is spoiled by the fact that he doesn't deserve it. But mostly this is a cheery pop-rocket that lights up the stage the way disco...
With Bill Bradley running for president [CAMPAIGN 2000, Oct. 4], Americans have the opportunity to elect a man of extraordinary stature, brilliance, experience and, above all, wisdom. Rather than insulting us with the usual glitz and pizazz, Bradley challenges us to understand and confront the real issues. NANCY McK. CRIBARI Rowley, Mass...
...such as those in Sun Valley, Idaho; Nantucket, Mass.; and the Hamptons on Long Island boast some of the priciest digs in the world. The celebs made that happen, no doubt. But their impact on less glitzy neighborhoods is unclear. Chappaqua is a rural bedroom community that prizes solitude. Glitz is bad. Yet a sitting President's decision to buy in our town is a ringing endorsement. Real estate agents will trumpet it and attract more potential buyers and prop up values...
...LIFE, at a time when publishing is gaga for websites and niches. Yet if anyone could dust off the genre, it's probably Brown, one of America's most successful magazine editors--if you're measuring in buzz rather than bucks. She's the one who put the glitz into Vanity Fair and the news into the New Yorker. When an editor who's won an astonishing 14 National Magazine Awards decides to cook from scratch, expectations fly over the moon. Part of it was her own fault, teaming up as she did with financial backers Harvey and Bob Weinstein...