Word: sheen
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...sense these movies convey that money - the giving and withholding of it - is a powerful melodramatic instrument, something that can dominate (and warp) lives. You need mature actors to play in pictures like these and you need someone like Bier to impart a dark, but still enviable, sheen to upscale life. And, more important, to penetrate mere stylishness to find the authentic drama beneath the handsome surfaces. After the Wedding unfolds and enfolds like those old-fashioned novels on which those classic movies were so often based. It speaks the universal language of high romance in the distinctly unromantic Danish...
...thoughtful Henry scenes that elevate The Tudors from Desperate Palacewives to a West Wing--esque political drama. Like Martin Sheen's President Bartlet, Rhys Meyers' Henry is appealingly curious about the world around him. "We live in a political climate that is so anti-intellectual," says Beem. "The Tudors are the best-educated monarchs ever to get on the English throne. Henry wrote a book in Latin." He also had a keen eye for talent, surrounding himself with brilliant men like Cardinal Wolsey, played by Sam Neill as a surprisingly sympathetic character for modern audiences--more of a workaholic gunning...
...finding the plushness of such recent furniture trends as floral prints and the deco revival not to your liking, take heart. Many designers still have a love affair with white, minimalism's primary color, and there's nothing quite like its pristine sheen. Here are five products to refresh your palette...
...nation in a state of strange suspension. In the Dead Sea, one cannot sink, so dense is the water with minerals. Nor can one swim without difficulty. The water is heavy and bitterly stings the eyes. The body floats in uneasy weightlessness in the blue-green metallic sheen, and one looks off across
Website Ivygate.com reports that it’s Scott’s grating personality that is rubbing the sheen off the Tigers’ illustrious program, and the multiple defections from the roster this season bear that...