RYAN, 35, HAS always preferred the scavenged and handcrafted to the glossily manufactured.
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"We live in a world where there is so much, so glossily done," Lawson said.
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That her first solo album in eight years is as glossily excellent as her peak '90s ballads is astounding.
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Almodóvar begins this period with "Kika," the glossily filmed story of a makeup artist whose rape becomes the subject of a tabloid show.
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That and the two horses we saw lying in the grass, a mare and her foal, black and glossily beautiful in the moist air.
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Torres stands on the curb next to a bus stop, the glossily painted fire lane bisecting the image diagonally and propelling him toward the viewer.
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The glossily unreal, unreally glossy world that PC Music present in such a preening and pristine manner is, at present at least, disconnected from what's actually happening in the world.
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Sunday night, Fox will present "Grease: Live," a TV version of the hit Broadway musical that was turned into -- or, depending on your view, glossily twisted -- into a blockbuster 1978 film.
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And to round it all out, Uber released a glossily produced video to demonstrate what using its aerial taxi service would look like from the perspective of a working mom who just wants to get home to her kids.
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Read More: Programmers Are Racing to Save Apple II Software Before It Goes Extinct ViperCard's old school look and faithful recreation of the HyperCard experience bring back days when users were encouraged to play with their new machines rather than simply follow their glossily-rendered instructions.
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The building's aspirational, monolithic, technocracy-invoking appearance didn't help me much on this front; it brought to mind the family-friendly, glossily futuristic aesthetic of Disney's Big Hero 6 more than it did anything like a gym or arena or field or anything I'd previously associated with sports.
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Her experimentation has resulted in explosive yet compressed compositions, as in "Practicing Piano," with its fractured shards of gray fingers, mauve lips, piano keys, shadows, a blue patch of clothing, and glossily reflective mahogany, all topped by an absurd yellow jewel of an eye like the star atop a Christmas tree.
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Three of the four standing plates are spongily etched with acid washes, while one remains glossily transparent.
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The inflorescences are umbel- like cymes, borne outside the axils. The flowers usually are red or reddish, sometimes yellow, orange or pink. There are five sepals, with the corolla usually longer than the calyx. The five petals are usually glossily waxy, consistently with some of the common names.
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Bearded magazine's Ben Woord categorized the album as "seductively uneasy listening: genuinely odd but strangely accessible sampladelia." He reasoned that the "lurching rhythms and jarring juxtapositions have the potential to be unsettling as hell," but "he somehow makes it glossily textured and rather likeable."Wood, Ben (May 6, 2013). "Co La – Moody Coup (Software Recordings)". Bearded.
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In his review for the New York Times, Frank S. Nugent described the film as "incredibly romantic, glossily produced, expertly directed and peopled by the sort of players most often encountered on the covers of the fan magazines". But despite this "triumph of machine-made art", Nugent criticized the story for its "romantic absurdity" and "outrageous implausibility".
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Writing for The Monthly Film Bulletin in 1972, critic Nigel Andrews described the film as "quite a neat, unpredictable revenge thriller", praising its "glossily efficient" script and direction as well as the performance of Ward. He concluded that Clinic Exclusive is "altogether a surprisingly competent production, if only within the limits of its strictly catchpenny genre".
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The recorded song lyrics and orchestrations are nonetheless identical (or very similar to) those of the songs as performed in the theatre. Like any studio performance, the recording is an idealized rendering, more glossily perfect than any live performance could be, and without audible audience reaction. Nevertheless, the listener who has attended the live show expects it to be an accurate souvenir of the experience.
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Haim performing at the Way Out West in 2013 Critical reaction to Haim has mostly been positive. PopMatters Matt James wrote "It'd be hard to truly dislike Haim. They're an eminently likeable, albeit slightly kooky, trio whose story already bears the frisson of legend." Writing for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis praised the band's songwriting abilities, saying it "has a certain kind of glossily depthless pop perfection down pat".
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Sun-60 began as an acoustic folk duo, composed of Joan Jones and David Russo playing under the name Far Cry. Gradually their sound became harder-edged, and they added various musicians to form a rock rhythm section. They were signed by Epic Records in 1990 and released the eponymous Sun-60 in 1992. Sun-60 is a glossily-produced, high-energy folk/pop/rock album showcasing Jones' voice and hook-laden songwriting.
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A plain-colored gauze gown discovered in the Mawangdui tomb, for example, measures long by wide but weights only in total. The intact embroidered silk from Mawangdui shows intricate patterns of swirling clouds, with more than 20 dyes used in the making of the diverse colors. Glossily decorated lacquerware was manufactured a wide range of purposes, including dishes, furniture, and storage boxes. Iron was widely applied for agricultural and military use, and ironwares found in Changsha tombs include spades, pickaxes, daggers, spears, swords, axes, and coins.
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The film was generally poorly received by critics; it was referred by The Village Voice as "a tack better suited to Anderson's famed photo collections than a narrative medium" in which the interviews "are cut into such narrow snippets it's impossible to piece together anyone here into a coherent personality". The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "lacks the depth to be much more than a glossily sexy curiosity". According to The Washington Post' film critic Michael O'Sullivan, despite being in some moments "surprisingly moving" the film "arouses curiosity without really satisfying it".
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Slant Magazine's Kevin Liedel expressed confusion with the album, asserting it was a "good bet that after only one track of Moment Bends, most longtime fans will have their brows furrowed." He added that "it's difficult to gauge whether or not the album is intentionally bad." Uncut magazine dismissed it as "the kind of glossily produced 'perfect pop' you can spin a dozen times without ever remembering a single tune." In December 2011, it was announced that Moment Bends was voted number eight in triple j's 2011 Album Poll.
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"Art show that's struggling to stay afloat", pg. 3, South China Morning Post It was priced at a symbolical HK$888,888 ($114,000). Wong said that, as the square foot price is [an astronomical] HK$55,555, Paddling Home is an ironic statement comparing the perils of owning a glitzily- and glossily-packaged high end residence to being on the high seas."16方尺漂流屋「售」88.8888萬". Sing Tao Daily, 4 December 2009 When asked in 2012, Wong said he considers Paddling Home his most challenging work to date.
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Since its live debut at The Factory, Ludus was favourably reviewed in the press. In January 1979, Paul Morley, writing for NME, remarked: :Ludus are anything but ordinary. A rich, bewitching quartet, led by the enigmatic Linder, whose maturing, enchanting voice adds layers of mystery, fragility and haunting strength to the esoteric music... Arthur supplies the solids, Linder the shadows; Arthur the rain, Linder the wind. It's a classic combination... The overall mixture is of a precious dance music: Gothic, but not glossily so, like Magazine; impressionistic and expressionistic; compact and exuberant.
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The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer William Boyd. It was published in 2017 by Viking Press. Penguin Books released an unabridged audiobook version, also in 2017. Reviewing the book for the Financial Times, Alex Preston described it as "a largely superb collection of interlinked stories" that are "brilliant and bewitching". Elizabeth Lowry, for The Guardian, said that the stories "are glossily knowing in the manner of Somerset Maugham... They are unfailingly amusing and clever; their only fault is that they sometimes strive for effects of pathos that the urbane narrative angle can’t quite support".
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Irwin Allen, who later went on to produce famous 1970s disaster movies like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, produced a whole range of popular science fiction series shows on American television during the 1960s. These included Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968), The Time Tunnel (1966-1967), and Land of the Giants (1968-1970). All involved futuristic, scientific concepts played out as the background to glossily produced action/adventure shows. Critics of Allen’s output often argue that it is all rather soulless and shallow, but as mass- produced entertainment it proved popular with American and international audiences.
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A national conference on photography will be held in Sydney this > month and finally, in Melbourne, the first dealer gallery of international > standing to open doors in this country was inaugurated last month. Identified by photojournalist Geoff Strong as “that haute couture of Australian photographic magazines”, Light Vision was glossily printed by Norman J. Field & Co Pty Ltd in Richmond,Australian Book Review, Issues 1-27, 1978, p.33. P. Isaacson Publications. reproducing photographers' prints full page, and tackling photographic theory in essays, and in reviews of such contemporary texts as Susan Sontag's On Photography (1977).
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Frank Scheck from The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film after their showcase at the Tribeca Film Festival, > The film examines the myriad personal issues of its interviewees who emerge > as articulate spokespeople for their largely marginalized subculture. Sure > to be a staple at gay-themed film festivals, the film should garner > significant attention upon its commercial release. Its subjects are indeed a > fascinating and diverse lot. Interspersed with the insightful interviews are > glossily photographed scenes of the subjects clearly relishing playing to > the camera, from Alberic sexily splashing about in his bathtub to Samantha > bathing nude in a river to Sophia lip-synching a Barbra Streisand song using > a dildo for a microphone.
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It was not until later in the decade, again inspired by the post-Star Wars boom of 1977 and beyond, that science fiction series began to return to prominence. One of those particularly keen on exploiting the networks’ new interest in the genre was producer Glen A. Larson, who created two new science fiction series in quick succession: his own original creation Battlestar Galactica/Galactica 1980 (1978–80) and another television version of Buck Rogers, this time entitled Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–81). Both of these series had much in common. They were glossily produced on high budgets, with pilot episodes that were released theatrically into cinemas in some territories.
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Bernard Zuel from The Sydney Morning Herald spoke about the problems with the release to Tidal, saying "Apologies, embarrassment and another social media fail: is this already a new low water mark for Madonna and Tidal only weeks after it began operating?" He criticized Madonna's team for not being able to release the video smoothly, while also noting that negative feedback given to the video included "Madonna's age, sexually charged performances, [and] need to shock". Tshepo Mokoena from The Guardian considered the cameos as more of "slapdash than slick", appearing as "flat and glossily detached". Time magazine listed the music video at number 8 on their ranking of the "Top 10 Pop Music Videos of 2015", describing it as "nuts as its croaking bass drop".
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" Metacritic, another review aggregator which assigns a weighted mean rating in the 0–100 range based on reviews from top mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 59, based on 41 reviews, which indicates "Mixed or average reviews". The film was somewhat better received in Europe. UK film and music journalist Dylan B Jones praised it, claiming director Oliver Stone had found "a magic strain of sultry sex, frantically emotional turmoil and glossily savvy action sequences". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars (out of four) and praised Oliver Stone's direction, saying, "Much of the fascination of 'Savages' comes through Stone's treatment of the negotiations, which involve percentages, sliding scales over three years, an ultimate payout, and other financial details that drugs have in common with big business.
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Adrian first achieved wide public notice in a nine-month season at the Westminster Theatre from September 1938, as Pandarus in a modern dress Troilus and Cressida and Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonnington in The Doctor's Dilemma, winning enthusiastic notices from the critics: "Mr Max Adrian triumphantly turns Pandarus into a chattering and repulsive fribble of the glossily squalid night-club type";The Observer, 25 September 1938, p. 13 "The egregious 'B.B.'... is a great piece of fun, and Mr. Max Adrian rightly draws him with all possible exuberance of line."The Times, 18 February 1939, p. 10 Adrian joined the Old Vic company in 1939, playing the Dauphin in Shaw's Saint Joan, "a beautifully malicious study in slyness, effeminacy, meanness, and a curious lost, inverted dignity."The Times, 12 October 1939, p. 6 He continued classical work with John Gielgud's company at the Haymarket Theatre (1944–45), where he appeared as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Osric in Hamlet, and Tattle in William Congreve's Love for Love.The Times, 20 January 1973, p.
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