Word: stylist
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Elie Nadelman was the Cole Porter of modern sculpture, a stylist to the very root. His art possessed the mellifluous, urbane seriousness that only wit confers and that was rare in American culture, whose usual tone (during Nadelman's life) was more dogged and puritanical...
...movie is based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who really knew how to heap on the plot. Burroughs may not have been much of a stylist, but any writer who can bring submarines and Brontosauri together deserves respect. Just for the record, Bowen Tyler (McClure) and Lisa Clayton (Penhaligon) are passengers on a ship that is torpedoed by Captain von Schoenvorts (John McEnery). Along with a few surviving British officers, Tyler takes over the German submarine (don't ask how; luck has something to do with it), which gets lost somewhere around South America. Water and supplies...
None of this means that the film is less cheeky (or less visually sumptuous) than its predecessor. It is merely a modest claim that its director is something more than a nimble comic stylist. He has the good satirist's indispensable quality, moral indignation, and the wit to show it only in bright, bitter, almost subliminal flashes. Perforce less of a surprise than The Three Musketeers, and perhaps a little sketchier in plotting and characterization. The Four Musketeers disappoints only because we know that there is not enough film left in the can to bring D'Artagnan...
...kind of odorless setting solution that is much milder than the old stuff and produces a looser curl. Moreover, the choice of rollers is generally the sausage-sized ones instead of the familiar skinny kind used for the standard permanent. After the hair has been set, the stylist applies the lotion-sometimes uniformly, often just on some parts of the head, leaving the remainder of the hair straight for an unusual textured effect. Once this is done, the hair is partially dried under a heat lamp in a scant 20 minutes, then blown fully...
...Miami Beach: "I was tired of the long, straggly hair that always knotted. They say with this new style I can let it blow in the wind and it will go right back again." Some men even bring their girl friends along for an unpermanent. Their order to the stylist: "His and hers...