Word: stylishness
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First it was fancy sneakers, then stylish sunglasses. These days World War II- style leather bomber jackets, valued at up to $300, are the booty of choice for the discriminating young thief in the chilly Northeast. In Boston some 40 incidents have involved bomber jackets. New York City has also seen a rash of ) jacket crimes. But Newark has been hardest hit, with 78 jacket robberies in January alone, 56 of them involving deadly weapons. The Newark police have formed a special jacket unit, some of whose members don models from among the confiscated supply and walk the streets, hoping...
...poverty of his formal means, there is no sign of this in Salle. He is a competent layout man, and can push his unrelated images around the picture with a certain finesse. But he can hardly draw at all. His line is slack and weak, "stylish" rather than imbued with style. What he does is trace, drawing lines around images cast on his oversize canvases from a projector. In this way he preserves some of the look of the original, as a taxidermist preserves the look of a cat. But the one is as dead as the other...
...Beineix attracted 15 minutes of overattention with his emptily stylish Diva. A year later he stubbed his ego on the contumely of critics when his next film, The Moon in the Gutter, was hooted out of the Cannes Film Festival. Both films were arias of adolescent male obsession with the fatal mystery of womanhood, a theme that Betty Blue investigates more maturely, more dangerously. There is doubtless a feminist parable to be found here, and criticism to be made of its too schematic structure. But the film is full of quirky incident and compassionate humor. What might have repelled ultimately...
CRIME STORY (NBC). The two-hour premiere episode was a fierce and stylish update of The Untouchables. Succeeding shows have lost some originality and flair, but this latest series by Producer Michael Mann (Miami Vice) still makes most other cop shows look like wimps...
...each in a distinctive style. Foremost among them are the reserved restoration of the haute cuisine Lutece; the playful deli-diner that is Lox Around the Clock; Casino Pascal, a barren redo of a plusher, earlier Lopata work; and Extra! Extra!, in the New York Daily News Building, a stylish cafe with a black-and-white newsprint theme and "spilled ink" glazed onto floor tiles. On the drawing board for next year: a face- lifting for that theater-district landmark, Sardi...