Word: platformization
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...usually in the confines of highbrow dance troupes (like Deuce Coupe, based on Beach Boys music, for the Joffrey Ballet). Here she manages to enhance Joel's music (sung by a Billy stand-in, Michael Cavanaugh, who sits at a piano, accompanied by a 10-piece band, on a platform above the stage) while buoying the spirits with sexy, high-voltage dancing that promises to give Broadway a rush of excitement. Best of all, she does it the old-fashioned, pre-Mamma Mia! way: no dancing in the aisles...
...other words, the violence that began in February and went on until April isn't fading into history. It's a plank in an electoral platform?an ominous sign of how vulnerable Gujarat's Muslims have become. "The system is just not functioning for the Muslims in Gujarat," complains Ahmadabad lawyer Mukul Sinha, a Hindu working to promote secularism in the state...
...Renta at the house of Pierre Balmain) to the new (first John Galliano at Christian Dior, most recently Julien Macdonald at Givenchy) has transformed the week to one of pop stars, parties and product launches. The new-generation shows this season were full-fledged extravaganzas. John Galliano's platform shoes tripped up more than one model - and with Indian-like feather headdresses towering above them, the slightest twist of an ankle caused audible gasps in the audience. The clothes were packed with Galliano's notoriously wide-ranging references - from punk to pregnant Kate Moss to Marilyn Monroe (a New York...
...linked to the configuration of neuron networks in the brain. Her telegenic looks, designer clothes, accessibility and enthusiasm for her subject - the mind and how it works - have led the media to dub her Britain's only celebrity scientist. She doesn't mind the tag: it gives her a platform to speak out on issues about which she feels strongly, like the British government's announcement last week that marijuana will be downgraded to a low-risk drug whose use or possession is not an arrestable offense. Greenfield thinks that moves to decriminalize the drug are based on "the greatest...
Dulles’ campaign was neither so desperate nor dramatic. Dulles, a lawyer with a respected, small international law boutique, said that he did not run on a platform and had no bone to pick with the HAA establishment...