Word: vixen
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HOUSTON The favorite shoe among the SUV (sport-utility vixen) crowd is Manolo Blahnik's $455 "sneaklo," above, a stiletto boot with a lug sole, according to Ken Downing, a vice president of Neiman Marcus...
...sexy, Angelina Jolie’s gliding voice is as complex as the woman herself. With the faintest hint of a British accent occasionally peeking out in her words, it’s easy to regard Jolie as the real-life personification of Lara Croft, the British video game vixen from Tomb Raider...
...Midori and lemonade) or a frozen vodka-cassis cocktail called the Shanghai Blues. The real action, though, is in the cushioned front salon, where the jeunesse dorée of the 21st century gather each night to discuss red lipstick and red-chip companies - even the prettiest, poutiest Shanghai vixen dabbles in the market. If nothing else, a conversation might elicit a decent stock tip. Hints and hustle are what the new Shanghai is all about - just like the Shanghai of yesteryear...
...Meyer had assembled his own tight little gang. Among them: Anthony James Ryan, a 166th vet who helped write "Vixen!" and toiled in many production capacities; Jack Moran, writer on "Pussycat" and four other films and all-round guy Friday; editor and soundman Richard Brummer; sound editor Don Minkler; music director Igo Kantor; actor Franklin Bolger, the put-upon older husband in six Meyers; and, performing in two films, all-time-worst director also-ran (he was tops at nothing) and "Mystery Science Theater" favorite Coleman Francis...
...Meyer, Phase Three: "Vixen" and his other color comedies "Good Morning...and Goodbye," "Common Law Cabin," "Finder Keepers, Lovers Weepers," "Cherry, Harry & Raquel!" These films took the narrative excess and exuberance of the "Lorna"-period movies and lead-footedly revved up the pace, until they were little frenzies of lust and frustration. The playing of the actresses was even more aggressive, of the actors even more perplexed. The humor was foregrounded; now the world could say, for sure, "Oh - he's kidding," allowing uncomplicated enjoyment of the bustling and the busts. "Vixen," the snazziest of this crowd, was Meyer...