Word: lusciousness
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...from the corners of her mouth. Always tears; always mouth corners. So it was in The Horse Whisperer, and so it is in The Loop, a wolf opera set among haters of government and the Endangered Species Act in darkest Montana. She, this time out, is a wolf biologist, luscious but a doddering 29; he is a very young 18, the sensitive son of a bull-witted rancher. The kid learns fast: "He felt that her life was but the smallest flame that might be snuffed out if he were to let go of her," the author advises. The advice...
...Friends" cut, though, has been a source of many traumas. Justine Yang '98 recalls how a chic Newbury Street salon sheared her luscious locks. "Sophomore year, when the Jennifer Aniston cut was popular, I got my hair cut like that," she confesses. "I looked like a boy. I almost cried. My aunt said I looked like a weed." Eventually, though, her roommate Lana Lee '98 suggested that they go to Leonard Stephen in the Square. "Now I'm happy," Yang says of her layered bob. "I get it cut like every 6 weeks. I like my hair to be nice...
Close, when a student at Yale, was enraptured by the work of the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning: he loved his color and luscious paint surface, while realizing that they couldn't possibly be imitated. Imitating de Kooning was the bane of student existence: no originality could come of it. But Close, in his ruminative way, hankered after the paradise of the senses that de Kooning's touch represented, and it surfaces in the work that he had begun to do just before his paralysis in 1989 and was able to develop after his partial recovery. The dots and pixels...
With feel-good comedies and soapy ship operas dominating commercial cinema, the visionaries are in retreat. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) and Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall) have renounced the form. That leaves the creation of dank, luscious worlds within worlds to Alex Proyas. And he'll do fine. The Egyptian-born, Australian-raised director of The Crow has a chilling new fever dream called Dark City--a reminder of how sensuous a visual trip movie watching...
...read in the style of the J.Peterman catalog (of Seinfeld fame). The shop puts an interesting twist on catalog writing, turning flowery prose into poetry. An example is this rhyming verse description of a collection--it has the utter incomprehensibility of haiku: "Tinted organdy in lime and Dresden blue, luscious velvets and jacquard--a hint of old, a tint...