Word: swankness
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...clean aesthetic” and “just the way he was all about consumption and labels... and the way he watched porn and stuff like that... Not that I would ever do that.” Sure, Kanye dresses pretty sharply and has a swank apartment in this video, but from there, I think he loses me. The video certainly has a promising start. It opens with Kanye, dressed entirely in white, sitting on a couch covered with a white sheet in a room that is—of course—completely white. Then we see shadows...
...need the validation of older comics; it's got winning stars in their early 20s who are true both to this moment and to old star quality. In the 1930s, Hollywood had The Thin Man, with the married couple Nick and Nora Charles as the epitome of Manhattan swank. Though this Nick and Norah have a lot more angst, they're just as worth watching, admiring and cuddling...
Down the corridor on a top floor of an office skyscraper, a tough-looking man strides, radiating corporate menace. Inside his swank office, he detects danger from outside, and in a moment his colleague has been shot. Running toward the office window, he leaps out, head first, his face a mesh mosaic of broken plastic, as if it were a crushed stained-glass mask. He lands on the adjacent building the shots came from, using his own artillery to dispatch several of his would-be killers, including one with a bullet that can turn corners. Alone and triumphant, he hears...
...date the beginnings of the change all the way back to Sinclair Lewis and Main Street. The aging moviegoer might cite King's Row, wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...
...father, Bryan C. Barnhill, was less impressed by the swank trappings than the Spee’s history. John F. Kennedy Jr. ’40 was once a member...