Word: glitz
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...products of the slick tradition of Europop that combines street sounds (usually American, like rap and house music) with disco glitz. The result is a kind of musical fashion show in which the look is as seminal as the sound, the moves more decisive than meaning. The Millis appear in their videos snazzily dressed, or half-dressed ("Our clothes style is to go for fashion"), whirling like cotton candy around a spool, executing dance maneuvers that fall a bit short of def. They are musical mannequins, modeling, selling and finally buying their own line...
Donald the dealmaker and Ivana, his glittering Czechmate, are awash in power and glitz. The collapse of their marriage has to be like everything else in their lives: flashy and very public. As friends, lawyers and publicists choose sides, the tabloids and TV go into a frenzy, while rumors fly about infidelities (his) and demands (hers) for a fair share of the $1.7 billion fortune...
...destination, ASDAS "shopping mall" as you so quaintly call them, I ups bonnet, the battery is exuding an acrid smoke which almost chokes me. Nothing to see though which could explain the rattling noise, so in we went to the "Shaaping maall" (American Idiom). Hustling around all the glitz and shit on sale to the idiots like us who come every year under the spell of the commercialism of it all. Bought a few things for the kids etc and made it back to the rust wreck in pissing rain. Fortunately it started, and we managed to get home leaving...
...hype and glitz, the cocky 49ers infuriated their coach, Seth Greenberg--a deadringer for Douglas Brackman of L.A. Law. They boasted a lot. They joked around a lot. But they never buckled down long enough to put away the upstarts from the Ivies. Taking what Greenberg described as "an abundance of bad shots," they were outhustled from the start and no matter how often Greenberg--another non-Californian if ever there was one--yapped at his home court referees, he couldn't buy a call...
...with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much of today's franchised glitz. Says Arthur Krim of the Society for Commercial Archeology, which studies America's commercial history: "To look at a diner or gas station was a link to a smaller, more friendly world." But not necessarily a more visually pleasing...