Word: gorgeousity
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...call me Octopussy," the woman murmured. She was, of course, gorgeous, her thin yet voluptuous body sheathed in a simple, expensive dress. Bond could sniff the perfume of her danger the moment they met. From there to bed had been the matter of a few glances between professionals, and the act itself had been high sport, the Wimbledon finals of sex. Now the match was over, and Bond, instead of steeling himself for a stray tarantula under the sheets, found himself ruminating. Was she the good woman or the bad one? In each of his assignments, it seemed, there...
...once danced the role of James eloquently and who is now artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. As James, Bujones uses his particular aggressive variation on the Bournonville style effectively, and he is nicely complemented by Marianna Tcherkassky's sweet, limpid, almost blurred Sylph. The gorgeous sets by Desmond Heeley are drenchingly romantic, but Bruhn (wisely keeps sentiment in check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet...
Behind this face is a restless, ambitious spirit. She is not content with being merely a model, only an actress; she demands a kind of Renaissance celebrity. Isabella Rossellini, for example, could have decided to coast through gossip pages as the gorgeous daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian Film Master Roberto Rossellini. Instead she has become a journalist, a television performer, a film actress and, on a whim, one of the fashion world's most sought-after models. Joanna Pacula rose quickly through the disciplines of theater, film and TV acting in her native Poland; now she has the female...
There is little room in today's reckoning for the gorgeous playthings that the royals and the royally rich acquired insatiably in the three or four decades before World War I. The most sumptuous, superbly crafted of these frivolities were made by Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweler to the Romanovs, whose establishment in St. Petersburg poured out cascades of baubles and bibelots for nearly 50 years before the Bolsheviks banged on the door...
...support of Steven Mosher were unfair. Americans always use their ethical standards to judge other cultures. Forced abortion is inhuman, but the native Chinese view of abortion is different from ours. As an anthropologist, Mosher should have known this. He got what he deserved. Stan Siao Ann Arbor, Mich. Gorgeous Hunks...