Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy. So is some of Conroy's rhetoric. "Through no preference or selection of our own," begins one chapter, "the graduating class of 1966, in high schools all over America, found ourselves cast like dice across the velvet-covered gambling tables of history ... the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like pangolins or armadillos and make sure that our soft underbellies were not exposed for either inspection or slaughter...
...your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then just wait for the women who set fire to abusive men, the attack of the giant manta ray, and the general's daughter and the private who are blown up by a war protester's bomb while making love in a parked...
From the lush opening shots of India and the ship to America, seemingly suspended in the velvet night. "A Little Princess" is practically shot through the diamond lens of a platinum camera, on gold-rinsed film. This movie positively drips wealth. Even the wooden planks of the bare attic where Sara is thrust after her fall from grace are examined in lustrous detail by the camera's eye, and of course the opulence that surrounds her before her little bout with poverty is absolutely sumptuous. Reality is suspended as surely as if this were an animated feature...
...expense account for Quarter Pounders on a crowded lawn. Dazzled by the chic, they perch themselves near the heavily guarded white tents where designers unveil their seasonal collections. The businessmen, of course, do not come because they are interested in Richard Tyler's position this year on velvet. They want to catch a glimpse of the shows' real centerpieces: the famously angular beauties for whom surnames now seem superfluous: Cindy and Claudia, Linda and Christy, Naomi and Kate...
...astonishingly beautiful daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, has been plugging Lancome cosmetics under a contract that has paid her as much as $315,000 a year for 35 days of work. Along the way, Isabella had two other, less successful careers-as a movie actress (Blue Velvet, Wyatt Earp) and wife (she is divorced from film director Martin Scorsese and model Jonathan Wiedemann). Now that she has reached a certain age-she's pushing 43-Lancome, according to some reports, has decided that it wants a fresher image. Whether she was pushed or quit, Rossellini and the company...