Word: lustrous
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...Japanese-occupied village at the end of World War II. Taiwan's Edward Yang was named Best Director for his stately domestic drama, "A One and a Two." The Best Actor prize went to Tong Leung Chiu-wai, as a cuckolded husband considering an affair with lustrous Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong period romance "In the Mood for Love...
...magazine editors, lighting directors, cinematographers, etc. aren't going for the natural look. If a star has a zit, scar, mole or other unsightly "blemish," the powers that be are gonna zap it; after all, computer technology can easily give a star a glowing tan and lustrous, poreless complexion. (Which brings me to an earth-shattering question. Who orchestrated Nicole Kidman's makeover? Check out 1989's Dead Calm and you'll see a completely different Mrs. Cruise. She looks fat, frumpy! She's got loads of freckles! Her hair is nappy! Now Nicole is deathly pale, skinnier than Calista...
...research, knowingly added cancer-causing chemicals to its products. Can Wigand trust Bergman, who keeps pushing him to go public with his story, though it cost him his severance pay, his peace of mind and his marriage? Can Bergman trust Wallace? And can anybody trust 60 Minutes, the most lustrous of TV newsmagazines, if it runs when Big Tobacco huffs and puffs at its door...
Juliette Binoche has one of the world's magnificent faces--delicate, intelligent, grave, questing--and this 1991 romance (just released in the States) is the most lustrous showcase for her haggard purity. The plot groans with lower-depths anomie: Michele, a painter who is half blind, camps out on Paris' Pont-Neuf with Alex, a fire eater who is more than half mad. But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever. Binoche's beauty is, naturally, the main course. One watches...
...would she want to put up with it, especially when the prize is a six-year stint as a junior Senator? Perhaps because the alternative ways of pushing her issues are less lustrous. Grunwald says that "when somebody suggests that the U.S. Senate might be the best platform, you don't dismiss it." And there is a larger reason for Hillary to run. She has spent much of Clinton's second term trying to define--in wonky confabs with intellectuals, party leaders and foreign heads of state--a "third way," a progressive politics that hews neither to the left...