Word: stylishly
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...McGraw is earnest. "Let's face it," she says, "they're using me." She is talking to two Channel 5 talk show hosts who think the public will want to know why Ms. McGraw --now a stylish 40 and a veteran of several box office disasters--is here in Boston publicly plugging VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America, known in the trade as "the domestic Peace Corps"). "The people from VISTA have really impressed me with--gosh, I don't know how to say this--their social awareness, their desire to make the world a better place...
...almost hear Louella Parsons saying, "Hello to all of you from Haw-ley-wood." This saucy, stylish, frolicsomely funny show is an affectionate spoof of the golden age of the silver screen...
...great novels of literary history. The lines and intersections of characters' lives are set within the dislocating phases of world events. All is understood in the perspective of the slowwheeling geometry of time's sweep. Hazzard handles her saga about the lonely remnants of several families with a stylish cinematic control that gives us a highly structured plot moving in the shadow of Greek tragedy. She roams the world with a chastened recognition of larger patterns beyond individual fate, yet never burdens her writing with heavy-handed determinism...
...backed up with reliable service. But beginning in the early 1970s, Sears went astray. Pinched on one side by shopping-mall specialty stores and on the other by discounters like K mart, Sears tried to move uptown. Suddenly, along with familiar bestsellers like Craftsman home tools, Sears emphasized stylish items like Musk Oil aftershave. A merchandiser from New York's Bloomingdale's was hired as fashion director to lend some tony ambience...
...Joseph Mobutu as Africa's stylish nihilist: "Mobutism simplifies the world, the concept of responsibility and the state, and simplifies people. Zaire's accession to power and glory has been made to appear so easy; the plundering of the inherited Belgian state has been so easy, the confiscations and nationalizations, the distribution of big shadow jobs. Creativity itself now begins to appear as something that might be looted, brought into being by decree...