Word: jour
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...communications allows us to be multiple personalities, but that effort is lost in ineptitude. There is nothing more boring than movies that spend a lot of time focusing on a computer screen as characters exchange typed-out sexual innuendoes. There is also nothing more offensive than the motivation du jour of partially repressed horrific memories - especially in pictures that glow with glamour-trash aspirations. For that aspect of the story, Rowena gets a job in Hill's agency, which permits her to wear swell clothes, go to fancy parties and engage in flirtatious dialogue about "Hemingway Daiquiris" with Hill...
...lived a life that was positively high-def-TV-ready, one that could have spiced up 16th century newsstands, had tabloid editors been around instead of Erasmus. And now Henry is making up for centuries of being relegated to the Old Kings' club by becoming Hollywood's hunk du jour. The Tudors, the most expensive Showtime series ever, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a svelte and sporty King, starts April 1. A film adaptation of Philippa Gregory's 2002 best-selling historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn, Scarlett Johansson as her sister Mary...
...popular home remedy his mother applied to scrapes and burns. "It helped the healing process tremendously," he says. Today it has become the star component of Fresh's newest antiaging product, Elixir Ancien. Sea buckthorn, along with a host of other arctic berries, is the miracle medicine du jour in the fast-paced world of skin care...
This fall, SLAM’s cause du jour was security guard unionization. In what The Crimson called a “hard fought victory for the guards and student activists,” Harvard security guards subcontracted through AlliedBarton were allowed to form a union. SLAM celebrated, and The Crimson’s editorial board applauded the decision because the “University’s security guards…deserve a union”—a glorious victory in the eternal class struggle...
...reveal that most people consider time to be their greatest indulgence, especially in this age of 24/7 mobile communication devices. Others might list dream destinations where they can disappear (and turn off the BlackBerry) for some respite: a bicycle ride through the Versailles gardens in France or a sjour at Thailand's Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, where guests learn how to interact with elephants. Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin likes to escape to a house he built on the Nile in Luxor, Egypt. New York City--based wunderkind designer Zac Posen recently ventured to Istanbul...