Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Verhoeven and Eszterhas may have needed the R rating after all. When they made Basic Instinct--a sexy R movie--they deployed atmosphere and innuendo to complement Sharon Stone's swank star turn. Here, with an NC-17 rating, the lads go slack; they let pubic hair and menstruation jokes do all the work. Since their leading lady can't act or dance or dazzle the camera, they've got problems they apparently didn't want to solve...
...Tattered Cover in Denver, bumped its biography and cooking sections off the first floor last November to accommodate a gourmet snack bar where visitors down cannoli and blueberry cheesecake while they pore over the latest hardcovers. Earlier this month owner Joyce Meskis went a step further and opened a swank restaurant on the store's fourth floor, offering specialties like vegetable torta and grilled venison...
Biggest Hit: Batman Forever. It's got Jim Carrey as the Riddler (enough said). Plus sex, laughs, swank, acres of heavy leather-and a great logo...
Food service was abandoned years ago, and credit cards are unheard of. The club may not be swank, but it still pulls in people from all over the world. "The other night," says Lorraine, "a young Japanese guy came in and walked around the room with his mouth open. He told me he'd dreamed of coming to this place all his life...
Roll Call breaks the news that Bono has bought a town house at a swank gated development in Georgetown. Meanwhile, after a hectic round of committee meetings, a briefing on fiscal issues, an interview with CBS News and a sit- down with a representative from the National Association of Realtors, Bono catches a flight back to Palm Springs to view flood damage and attend the film-festival gala...