I'm looking down at one of the most delicious magazine front covers I've seen in a long time – glossy mint green with painterly, promising coverlines and a cherubic Beth Ditto, naked, her modesty covered by a cerise tutu and, in the case of her nipples, an airbrush.
OK!'s long-time glossy rival was up 0.8% on the second half of last year and 3.7% on the first half of 2009, to 412,195.
According to an article in the New Yorker glossy, publisher and Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. personally proposed the merger of the two newsprint giants to Roy Hammer Roy Hammer, a member of Dow Jones' board, and also is the trustee for the Bancroft family, collectively the controlling DJ shareholder.
You don't take them out to dinner or waste their time with glossy brochures.
But he is right no longer.This has been declared the year of the ocean: a time for glossy display, including an Expo that has just opened in Lisbon.
When the whites form very soft peaks, add 1 cup of the sugar, a little at a time, until glossy, stiff peaks form.
That means you haven't been watching Stargate Universe, in which Carlyle played a hunky scientist, or Once Upon a Time, a glossy, meta-fairytale fantasy show with Carlyle camping it up as a human/goblin hybrid called Rumplestiltskin.
Yet for all its flaws the performance, conducted by Wolf-Ferrari champion Friedrich Haider, has style – and nobody's likely to make a glossy studio recording any time soon, so this will have to do.
The cracker-barrel view of the 1960s is of a glossy, fluffy, upbeat pop time but, like many records released in that decade and during 1966 in particular, Happy New Year partakes of a distinctly negative, if not hostile, spirit.
Even the upbeat Circle Line brochure had become a glossy remnant of the time before, with its 10 pictures of the twin towers and its promotion of a "sea and sky package" that included a trip to the top of one of the towers.
