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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...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gentlemen Prefer To Be Blondes | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gentlemen Prefer To Be Blondes | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

...Other, directed The Vagina Monologues, worked for Dorm Crew and starred as the lead—a “sinister kind of vamp”—in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Braxton-Brooks denies that any similarities exist between herself and said “vamp...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Seniors, Part I | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...Theirs might be a frostily idyllic existence, except that an evil spirit has infected Igloolik's ruling family. The family's young bull, Oki (Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq), has Sonny Corleone's temper and Fredo's sense of grudging inferiority. Oki's sister Puja (Lucy Tulugarjuk) is the local vamp, an Arctic Circle Circe. She gets under the sealskins of our brother heroes and stirs up a steaming pot of mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Ice Storm Cometh | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...riffed on Metheny’s composition “Offramp.” Vu crafted a searing, unsettling sonic landscape by half-blowing, half-buzzing into his horn. He simultaneously filtered and looped the sound with a mixer at his side and proceeded to solo over the resulting vamp. Initially captivating for its ingenuity, it decayed into a druggy, hellish stream of screaming guitars, strobing lights and tumult of menacing drums. It was an unsettling, visual and auditory apocalypse that left the audience puzzling as to how this fit into the band’s greater vision...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaking of Metheny | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

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