Word: vamp
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...Diana ran through the vamp (?I know a bundle of humanity / She?s about so high / I?m nearly driven to insanity / When she passes by?), adding the appropriate gestures of a hand measuring the air, for height, and a clockwise motion to the head, for insanity. Then she launched into the chorus (?I?m young and healthy / And you?ve got charms / It would really be a sin / Not to have you in my arms?), plighting her troth, really pitching it, with a tenor?s full faux fervor. Allie took the second verse (?I?m young and healthy...
...Leung), and a married woman (Maggie Cheung) who lives in the same boarding house. The new film follows Chow's erotic adventures for the next decade or so, mainly with the alluring Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), and occasionally dips into the past, in reveries of Lulu the vamp (Carina Lau) and the tragic-masked Su Lizhen (Gong Li). Chow is now a writer of science-fiction novels. They take him and the audience into the year 2046, where he dallies with the android Wang Jing-wen (Faye Wong...
...those girls in the back of the class, her nose buried in a book (so you can't see her beauty) or daydreaming (so you can't read her mind). And then, in a flash: prom queen! Star of the school play! Valedictorian or vamp! Likely Oscar nominee for 21 Grams! Her vault from nowhere to notoriety reminds you that anonymity is an ideal perch for looking at others, and into oneself. Nothing succeeds like late success...
When it comes to that myth—and that makeup—there are two Marilyns, says Geller: the 1940s Hollywood, dark-eyed and red-lipped vamp, and the “white on white” look crafted by makeup artist George Masters in the 60s. “He transformed her from Technicolor to frosted way before that became the fashion,” Geller says authoritatively. “She was the prototype, spanning the two types of 60s blondes—from vamp to vulnerable...
...that end, Geller and Meiszel have brought two Origins eyeshadow sets, one for each look: “Gilty [sic] Pleasures” and the more neutral “Partial Nudity.” The two agree that participants tonight have overwhelmingly chosen the vamp look for their makeover...