Word: polished
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...portraits simply drip glamour?the wealthy and celebrated of the day posed for Tamara de Lempicka, and her striking oils capture their red lipstick, perfect nails and skin as glossy as their satin dresses. Some art authorities dismiss De Lempicka (1898-1980), a Polish-Russian painter who flourished in '20s and '30s Paris, as a purveyor of kitsch and leave her out of their histories of 20th century art. Others see her as an icon whose work captured the spirit of the Art Deco age. Not surprisingly, many of her fans today are from the glamour set: present-day collectors...
...Useless Knowledge," that's his passion, "the department of Why Bother?" The boys know Larkin's and Auden's and Hardy's poems by heart. But Hector also encourages them to sing Gracie Fields songs, to enact scenes from '40s film romances and, in a hilarious set piece, to polish their French by improvising an encounter in a brothel. Despite his peccadilloes - like the occasional grope when he takes them for a ride on his motorbike - the boys cherish Hector. He has given them the vocation, the job and the joy of "breaking bread with the dead"; to be infused...
...teens gathering nightly to chop and kick like the kung-fu movie star. They ended the training sessions "under the pretext of renovating the gym," Korzeniowski says. "Of course they never finished, and athletics was the only session open." Walking was his destiny. In 1984, he qualified for the Polish championships, where he placed last. But competing on a big stage planted a seed: "I started to dream." The dreams fueled his drive, and led to strong results at major ju-nior meets like the World Student Games in 1991. But success, he now says, convinced him he was better...
Moulton’s television show lapsed last year when he returned to Camp Pendleton in California. The Polish troops who took over in Hillah “didn’t understand how important it was to have a media campaign,” he said...
Method brought groovy design to the dreary world of home-cleaning products with dish-washing soaps in bottles designed by Karim Rashid. Now aesthetes cum cleaners can stock up on the company's almond-scented wood polish and stainless-steel cleaner. Like the smell but not the scrubbing? Look for Method's scented candles and room sprays at Target stores later this month...