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...Never Fade Away), and Bernie Taupin produces a typically serviceable string of lyrics. The most interesting element here is John's voice; it's a lot scruffier than you might remember. At 59, he stretches to hit the high notes he used to kill, yet the strain gives his glossiest songs something they have never had before: a little grit...
...Deqin?especially the majestic, glacier-draped Mount Kagbo, Yunnan's highest peak at 6,740 m?lives up to its billing. A steep scramble up the mountain's flank will bring hikers to the foot of the glacier, which lies at the heart of Shangri-la, according to the glossiest of the tourist brochures...
...very much the same team, a bit more mature perhaps, and Shaq is healthy, but the big difference is that the Lakers are winning. Under Jackson, the Lakers sport the glossiest record in the NBA (51-11), and O'Neal is having an MVP season. "We've had a good first half," says the massive 315-lb., 7-ft. 1-in. O'Neal, who is averaging almost 30 points a game. "Now we have to maintain." Adds Jackson: "To be quite frank, I didn't think they'd be this far along...
...happen to be a young woman trying to extricate yourself from a sex scandal, one in which you face the real possibility of indictment, vamping in a photo spread for the nation's glossiest magazine might seem like a funny idea of favorable pretrial publicity. If you try it at all, you might want to stick to a simple outfit and a pensive expression, the kind of thing that says Innocence Under Siege. Then again, you might be Monica Lewinsky. In the July issue of Vanity Fair, which goes on newsstands this week, the world's most famous former White...
...best and the glossiest of the catalogues today look more like coffee-table books than anything as utilitarian as advertising, and they are far better read. (No longer does anyone call these artful artifacts junk mail.) Their makers enlist some of the world's fanciest models to animate their laces and tweeds, boots and blue jeans, at a cost of $2,000-plus per bod per day. (Sears, Roebuck has even used Cheryl Tiegs as a cover girl.) Their photographers, including such luminaries as Victor Skrebneski and Alex Chatelain, command daily fees of $3,000 and more...