Word: stylishness
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...rules of good and bad taste as they apply to that strange and sometimes rotten religion of the late 20th century -- celebrity. It is a religion that, as she knew as well as anyone, demands human sacrifice. Somehow, she managed to escape. And the escape was the most stylish and elegant part of her life...
...excellent taste in art and music, of course; the "classy" (to use John Kennedy's word) side of Camelot -- the stylish redecorations, Pablo Casals at the White House and so on -- was her doing mostly. But it seemed to me that over the years her truly superb taste expressed itself in what might be called the stylishness of her privacy...
...this two-hour film, Isabel Allende's complex, stylish novel has of necessity been stripped to its working parts. Yet the thing works in its goofy way, mainly because Bille August (of Pelle the Conqueror) is a man of apparently dauntless conviction. He has written and directed every scene with serene authority, somehow compelling your belief in what he's doing through his own sublime self-confidence...
...these things, and say "Isn't this crazy?" When, on their last LP Check Your Head, Mike D raps "I live my life just how I like to," it is clearly more than commonplace rap bravado. These guys have it made. They're also in credibly stylish: they started bringing back the '70s way before anyone else thought it was hip (check out their seminal video for "Hey Ladies"). Next time you see a crowd of kids in cool old-style sneakers (Gazelles, Shell-Toes, One Stars) remember that we can thank the B-Boys in large part for this...
...despite such fanciful touches, Capra, a master of motion within the frame, never lost touch with reality, which is sadly not the case with the stylish but bloodless Hudsucker Proxy. Most important, he and Sturges, ever the sentimental wise guy, were at heart children of the light. The Coens (Joel directs, Ethan produces and they write together, this time with Sam Raimi) are creatures of darkness. At their best (the great Miller's Crossing or the dizzy Raising Arizona) they are brilliant satirists of the national propensity for violence. But here they have deliberately cut themselves off from their best...