Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture, while the rest of world cinema looked on in impotent envy. This year the Americans played supporting roles. It was not so much that a Jurassic Park-size blockbuster was withheld from the festival as that Hollywood is in a profound artistic funk. Vitality, confidence and storytelling swank have evaporated; the industry seems to be working on automatic pilot...
...WHERE I AM, WITH MY KNICKERS at my knees . . .," begins a typical Anita Roddick anecdote, this one delivered, incongruously, to the editors of a dozen glossy women's magazines. The best of America's beauty press -- including editors from Vogue, Lear's and Mirabella -- have gathered at a swank Manhattan eatery to get a close look at the founder of the Body Shop, Roddick's fast- growing chain of cosmetics stores. She is telling them how she learned to make oud, the molasses-thick perfume worn by Bedouin women for its aphrodisiac properties. "We'll show you how to make...
Home alone on Christmas? Not Hollywood's swank set: Arnold and Cher, Rupert Murdoch and Marvin Davis and other star lights atop the Hollywood power tree. They're usually skiing or schmoozing in Aspen, the Rocky Mountain town that is the glitterati's Gstaad. This Christmas, though, the slopes may be a bit less congested. And some of the entertainment elite who winter at Colorado resorts may notice the soot of a guilty conscience tarnishing their white Bogner ski togs...
...antigay vote spurs boycott talk on Aspen's swank slopes...
...half of Williams' convulsing asides. Chuck Jones' verdict is judicious: Aladdin is "the funniest feature ever made." It's a movie for adults -- if they can keep up with its careering pace -- and, yes, you can take the kids. It juggles a '90s impudence with the old Disney swank and heart...