Word: glossing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from the silky hair, ultra-bronzed skin and neutral-toned makeup that define her image today. Somehow, seeing those old clips of her dancing on Before They Were Rock Stars goes a lot further in proving how real J. Lo is than any high-gloss video with Ja Rule...
...whether a line is dialogue or the narrator's commentary. Given Carey's many allusions to T.S. Eliot, this complexity might be intended to suggest the elusiveness of certain knowledge about human identity?or it might be merely pretentious. And his attempts to give the novel a high-literary gloss, with frequent references to Eliot, Ezra Pound and other 20th century masters, sit uneasily with the book's penny-dreadful ancestry...
...that's Lip Polish, a new line from Lorac that comes in colors like Amuse, the bright-pink shade worn by Jessica Simpson of MTV's Newlyweds. "We wanted to create something small, chic and playful," says Carol Shaw, founder of Lorac. As a bonus, the consumer gets a gloss that is scented with a hint of vanilla and mint. --By Alix Strauss
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...been totally unremarkable if not for some differences in pigment. Bans on gay marriage prohibit something altogether quite different. You may believe that gay marriage is a good idea, as is your right, but it does a service to no one, the gay rights movement least of all, to gloss over such issues...