Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here's a movie. Three stories that begin as cliches but soon go wild and wily. A gallery of tough guys who minor in philosophy. Career-defining turns by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Peppery dialogue that brings macho swank into the '90s. Quentin Tarantino's adrenaline rush of a melodrama is a brash dare to timid Hollywood filmmakers. Let's see, he says, if you can be this smart about going this...
Connie (Lisa Nosal) is the first character in the boat. As a tall leggy brunette of wealth, Nosal embodies the swank decadence of 1940s glamour. She's tougher (and taller) than most of the men. Only once does she loose her cool, when she slaps another passanger across and then has to slither back to him for reassurance. She seduces Kovacs (Dylan ) but the intimacy between them seems so forced...
...with glee at Robb headquarters, where aides were considering whether to use footage of Nancy Reagan in an ad for their candidate. Robb, after all, has been bathed in shame as well. The Democratic Party's onetime star-in-waiting has been dogged by stories about his attendance at swank parties with alleged drug users while he was Virginia's Governor and his alleged marital infidelities. While refusing to admit specific transgressions, Robb has conceded to having "let my guard down" in the past. That line, joked The Tonight Show host Jay Leno, "is just Washington talk...
...dual air bags, antilock brakes and automatic mirror controls will be standard, while options include leather interiors, dashboard CD players and special antitheft devices. Prices in this group start at about $12,000 to $16,000, and can reach around $21,000 depending upon one's appetite for automotive swank...
...admitted through the velvet rope at Studio 54 would be Liza and Halston and Bianca, and so on down to -- why not? -- Roy Cohn, the aide-de-camp of Senator Joe McCarthy and arguably Satan's first lieutenant. The meaning of hip was reconfigured to embrace the greed and swank and snobbery it used to reject. It would be summed up later in a song by Billy Joel, who may or may not be hip but was hip to this: "All you need are looks and a whole lotta money...