Virginia Postrel on glamour

Glamour is about editing.

Shouldn t basic human dignity take precedence over the glitz and pageantry of the games?

I could do a whole talk on The Matrix and glamour.

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Indeed, conspicuous glamour and excess are not uncommon among Mexico's richest citizens.

Behind the glitz, the summit may mark a watershed in France s relationship with Africa.

Nelson Mandela inherited that glamour indeed, he personified it.

Why should home values in glamour cities increase forever?

None of the glamour that you see today existed.

The Matrix is a movie that is all about glamour.

This may amplify any price declines, especially in glamour cities and those with weakening economies.

Leyla Aliyeva, Ilham and Mehriban's younger daughter and a queen of the glamour scene in capital Baku.

So, we all think we know what glamour is. Here it is.

It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.

That's glamour that's Michelangelo's Pieta, where Mary is the same age as Jesus and they're both awfully happy and pleasant.

With his Kenyan father, he carries the glamour once associated with Third World liberation movements.

The Euro is weak it has none of the glamour hoped for at its launch last year.

Because for centuries, glamour had a very particular meaning, and the word was actually used differently from the way we think of it.

To conceal all art and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort And this is one of the critical aspects of glamour.

There's a wonderful book called Crowns that's all these glamour pictures of black women in their church hats.

Australia's federal government says the aim is to deter young people from smoking by stripping the habit of glamour.

'Yes, they divert all the sap, they produce a false glamour,' he muttered, pausing, and feeling that she was looking at him he turned round smiling.

Unlike Mongolia, whose name conjures a certain glamour to complement the remoteness, the 'Stans' convey an obscurity stripped of all romance.

This week, many African heads of state will attend the 24th France Africa summit in Cannes. Behind the glitz, the summit may mark a watershed in France s relationship with Africa.

What could be more glamorous than understanding the entire universe, grand unification? And, by the way, it helps if you're Brian Greene he has other kinds of glamour.

In a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour which she defines as any calculated, carefully polished image designed to impress and persuade.

It is true that two horrendous world wars have taken the glamour out of war for most Europeans (Britain is a slightly different story).

This is likely to be the case for glamour cities in which international celebrities, entertainment industries, world class universities, or high technology industries are located.

When that happens, the glamour of America's long boom will vanish, the notion of the new economy will be as forgotten as last year's fashions.

In glamour cities, newspaper articles feature stories of homes that sold well above asking price, and 45 of respondents in the 2003 survey reported selling at above asking prices in San Francisco.

Mayawati s weakness for bling has been demonstrated at her extravagant birthday parties, which she presides over laden with diamonds, saying (rather like Evita Peron) that her luster brings glamour and dignity to her people.

In order to pull glamour off, you need this Renaissance quality of sprezzatura, which is a term coined by Castiglione in his book, The Book Of The Courtier.

The vacation home boom appears psychologically tied to the urban home price bubble in many of the world s glamour cities, and prices of these vacation homes are similarly vulnerable to a significant drop in coming years.

And there's something dangerous about glamour throughout most of history. When the witches cast a magic spell on you, it was not in your self interest it was to get you to act against your interest.

This would happen I, knowing beforehand that matters would never be allowed to reach a dangerous point, should have challenged a man in order to cover myself with false glamour.

Their risks today are often big due to real estate bubbles in such glamour cities as London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Moscow, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami.

This mini documentary begins with the Modernism era of the early 20th century, bringing out icons like the beloved former first lady Eva Perón, a big symbol in the country's history, and the actress and glamour model Isabel Coca Sarli, considered the quintessential sex symbol of Argentina.

The Euro is weak it has none of the glamour hoped for at its launch last year. Besides, European governments remain defensive no important labor market reforms nor initiatives aimed at deregulation are underway.

This may mean that buyers will not allow prices to rise like last time, but it could also mean that owners will be more ready to exit from the market. This may amplify any price declines, especially in glamour cities and those with weakening economies.

His intrigue with Anna Karenina, which had caused such a sensation and attracted so much notice in Society, by investing him with fresh glamour had for a while quieted the worm of ambition that gnawed him, but a week ago that worm had reawakened with fresh vigour.

In glamour cities, newspaper articles feature stories of homes that sold well above asking price, and 45 of respondents in the 2003 survey reported selling at above asking prices in San Francisco. More than 20 of sellers in all markets surveyed felt that that their property would have sold as quickly if they had charged 5 or 10 more.

Mayawati s weakness for bling has been demonstrated at her extravagant birthday parties, which she presides over laden with diamonds, saying (rather like Evita Peron) that her luster brings glamour and dignity to her people. She takes pride in being the Indian politician who pays the highest income taxes about 6 million last year though the sources of her income are shrouded in controversy.

NEW YORK Last week, rumors from the world of print media were rife a hundred reporters from The New York Times news desk to be bought out or to lose their jobs if they refuse steep cutbacks at British newspapers staffs slashed at Condé Nast eight respected editors axed at Glamour magazine. In the United States and elsewhere, there is a sense that the long foreseen implosion of news publishing is accelerating, having reached a kind of critical mass.

And mad and crazy and fun.