Word: stylistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Boston pitcher is Babe Ruth, who had not yet switched to the Yankees and the outfield, and from the size of the big raise-$600, bringing Keefe to the affluence of $3,000 a year, a sum barely adequate to pay a modern player's hair stylist...
...styled by Suga, a Japanese hairdresser who works at Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman and favors the cut because it bares the neck. "Japanese women are always covered up by the kimono, so that only the neck shows," he explains. "The Japanese think the neck is very sexy." Adds Stylist Eric Lintermans, owner of Linter-mans in Beverly Hills: "It lifts the face. The cut by the cheekbones can subtract years from a woman's face." Also, he notes, it can be styled in minutes with a blow dryer: "I think women are tired of having to fuss with...
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...