Word: stylishness
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...disturbing point is the lighthearted, almost careless approach of the characters toward each of these complicated relationships. Perfect Days begins in the stylish Glasgow loft of its protagonist, Barbs Marshall (Linda Carmichael), a successful hairdresser to the fashion elite. Barbs has money and style, but with a mother who doesn't understand her, a non-existent boyfriend, and an estranged husband, she feels exceptionally lonely. Her loneliness is compounded by the fact that she's not getting any younger: the dreaded 39th birthday is only a week away. So to remedy her self-esteem problems, she decides to have...
...that, scarcely 11 years after his death, he has already inspired two indelible biographies. Susannah Clapp's With Chatwin, of two years ago, was as sleek and elliptical and unorthodox as its subject, and gave us the man as he looked from across an editor's desk. Shakespeare, a stylish novelist with a gift for exotic locales (in the Acknowledgments he cites sources in 22 countries, from Benin to Nepal), provides every other face. The figure who emerges was a deeply solitary soul, hiding behind his exaggerated performances but genuinely driven by a vision, and elusive, perhaps, even to himself...
...Burton's shyness, eager undergraduates seeking pre-Simpsons entertainment last Sunday night had to turn to the vice president's yellow-ribbon wearing entourage. At the trial, anti-impeachment students sported stylish yellow ribbons pinned to their lapels, reminiscent of the red ribbons worn to commemorate those who have died of AIDS. I applaud these individuals for co-opting this brilliant advertising campaign. Some might have hesitated to equate victims of this century's greatest plague with the plight of an Ivy League student embroiled in minor-league political controversy. These courageous warriors for justice refused to abandon their quest...
...been taunting me with her oh-so-cool Blackberry messenger. "I can't believe you don't have one of these!" she says way too often, pulling out a beeper-size device and reading her e-mail at lunch. She is such a show-off. She is also a stylish person, and the Blackberry resembles her in that respect (except for her scary pointy shoes). Both of them are elegant, compact and totally wired...
...folk songs accompanied by an equally diverse instrumental ensemble (accordion, marimba, guitar, synthesizers, a brass quintet--you name it, she's got it). Every number, be it Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Come, All Ye Faithful or Benjamin Britten's Corpus Christi Carol, is sung with stylish grace and disarming sincerity. And unlike most classical singers, Von Otter knows how to make a pop tune swing...