Word: ornaments
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...fact, most snobbery is local. We're amused by the excesses of rock-star taste on MTV's Cribs, but we get genuinely snippy about our neighbor's tacky lawn ornament. Snobbery, Epstein suggests, is all about asserting our superiority, and we do that mostly with those around...
...fabulous babes! As Italy was creating world-class cinema, it was also discovering world-class beauties to ornament its screens. They came in droves, often out of beauty pageants...
...complex role as the frustrated wife in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) for the actress to show moviegoers and Hollywood that she was an actress. The Object of Beauty, Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral solidified her status as a go-to gal to ornament the smarter comedies for grownups. But in Crush, MacDowell is the center of the action and the acting. It's her movie, and she soars with...
...actual size, so that the entire picture was necessarily life-size. At this point, Bochner felt that he had achieved the total deconstruction of photography because the life-size image was exactly as the real-life scene had existed, in which case the photograph was a superfluous and redundant ornament of reality. Discarding the photograph, he turns to an actual installation of measurements in space: measurement takes the place of photography...
...deeply wedged into a wealthy family's daily life as a nanny, so when one (or two) decides to dish, the morsels are pretty irresistible. In Diaries Nanny comes across alphabetized lingerie drawers, a Christmas tree with no room for a child-made ornament and the "Spatula Reflex," a gesture developed by mommies to keep their children's hugs away. The master bedroom in apartments as vast as the Xs', Nan notes, "always runs the gamut from far away to really, really far away" from the child's bedroom, which contains "signed first edition Babar prints hung at least three...