The ice-packed fillets and
glossily packaged delicacies seem far from the wharves of fishing communities and the watery darkness that enshrouds decimated fish stocks and damaged habitat.
Why last night's The Full Monty, of course,
glossily repackaged as the new smash hit musical of the moment.
It was smoothly, even
glossily performed, not only by the dryly mischievous Lithgow and a delightful little boy from the School of American Ballet, P.J.
Appeal:
Glossily recycled for a new generation of modern saga fans.
Lesbian vampires on film go back at least as far as 1936's Dracula's Daughter; they experienced a sort of heyday in the early '70s, but these were primarily films made by and for straight men, most
glossily exemplified by the 1970 Hammer film The Vampire Lovers, adapted from the 1871 LeFanu lesbian classic, Camilla.
A sanitized "sixties" [has]...reemerge[d],
glossily packaged as the snap, crackle and pop fun time, to be opened up periodically for selective nostalgic peeps on cue: the pill, the mini-skirt, the Beatles, Swinging London, Revolution in the Streets.
Overbeck's Christ with Martha and Mary is a
glossily coloured contestation between Grace and Works, topics which greatly occupied Overbeck's mind after his conversion to the Catholic faith.
He went to the Daily Mail in 1969 and, after becoming a columnist on the
glossily printed Greyhound Magazine (which later became incorporated into the modern-day Greyhound Star), purchased the Magazine in 1980.
As an artwork it's negligible,
glossily produced but awkwardly composed and, to my eye, rather silly.
Cinnamon red shines as
glossily as ever; clove-flavored green still glows like an emerald.
All of these writers, but particularly Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace, are comfortable with surrealism, which had, prior to their arrival, been the sole province of the by-then-unfashionable "postmodernists"--Robert Coover, John Hawkes, Guy Davenport, John Barth, and the most frequently and
glossily published and, to my taste, most talented of the group, Donald Barthelme.
The latest thing was crisply painted genre scenes, incidents from literature or bits of classical mythology, presented in brilliant colour and
glossily finished.
D'Alessandro, a "proactive" executive from John Hancock Insurance, for which he created the
glossily gritty "Real Life, Real Answers" series of commercials.
A lurid and, at times, deliriously-silly psRTycho thriller, Neil Jordan's beautifully shot movie is
glossily entertaining despite being entirely predictable as its cliched story gradually becomes more and more loopy.
