Word: glossier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resorts' aging hotels, which could cost more than $150 million to renovate, have steadily lost business to their glossier neighbors. The rivalry in Atlantic City will grow even more heated next year when Trump opens his $1 billion Taj Mahal hotel and casino, which is situated next door to Resorts' 61-year-old flagship...
...producer of the age-old daytime CBS stand-by The Guiding Light, is invading the evening hours. In May, it will be offering half a dozen of Guiding Light's regular hands in the TV movie The Cradle Will Fall. Making the whole production look a little glossier is Lauren Mutton, 38. Her presence in Nashville, where the production was being shot, certainly dazzled Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, 42, who named Hutton an honorary "Colonel Aide-de-Camp of the Governor's Staff." The actress one-upped the hokum. Replied she: "Well, Governor, where is the camp...
Sensible people usually shop by catalogue for definite, affordable needs. There are, however, restless dreamers who cannot confine themselves to such a mundane activity and plunge wrist-deep into the pages of the glossier catalogues, fantasizing over offerings that are dizzyingly expensive. This pleasant addiction, though, is harmless and may even be cheaper than going to see a movie in the shopping mall cinema. No lines, no waiting: instant extravaganzas of luxury...
...harsh, primary colors of the Fauves) with life on cloud nine of the Nazi fantasy (shown in the pastel soft-focus of the later Doris Day films). Indeed, one can find hints of the director's auto biography: a contrast between his pinchpenny past and his recent, glossier work. He appears here in the role of a "secret Resistance fighter"-against the Nazis on-screen and the moneymen of the new German cinema. But he puts up too little resistance to the lures of an international cast (including Giancarlo Giannini as a Swiss Jew, and Mel Ferrer...