Behind its pumping beat and distinctive harmonies, it was a grim tale of growing up in poverty ("Grew up in a rusty shack / All I had was hangin' on my back"), but the song exerted a magnetic allure which has prompted countless performers to record it, from Bobbie Gentry and David Lee Roth to Edgar Winter, Eric Burdon, and Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle.
He had not been in college long before he decided to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology, which led to a job at Allure, which took him to W and to Elle, and here we are.
That may be because in the popular imagination, African jungles, deserts and plains retain a near-mystical allure, which the reality of the continent's political turmoil and poverty have never entirely dispelled.
In another study, Rowland and colleagues (2012) compared student reports of outcomes from what they called an active-learning laboratory undergraduate research experience (ALLURE, which is similar to a CURE) with those from a traditional lab course.
Low, black ceilings lend the downtown establishment a cloak-and-dagger allure, which the otherwise colorful, thrifted décor then complicates.
I was offered a one-man gig (except on Saturdays, when there were two of us) on the door of a strip club called Allure, which dragged me further into that high street stage show.
The new pictures are certainly a far style cry from the magazine's last all-black spread, "The Black Allure," which had a sort of flapper feel, featuring ladies clad in fringe, turbans and costume jewels.
Yet in France his ill health only added to his allure, which thrived on a national image of the couturier as a "creative artist" and on the Romantic legend of the delicate, doomed aesthete (Rimbaud, Verlaine) who must suffer for the sake of his art.
There's the Harman Kardon Allure, which sports Alexa and looks a bit like a coffee maker.
When people claim that movie action is bad -- and in many cases it is just that: thoughtless and childish, a reflexive and easy way to involve an audience -- they tend to be immune to its allure, which is perhaps why they can never suggest an alternative.
As the star of the new movie "Allure," which opens March 16, she plays a former survivor turned abuser who becomes obsessed with, seduces and emotionally abuses a teenage girl. .
