Villages are less glossy than the town, but no less exclusive.
"Columbus really turned itself around in the late '90s," said Hayes, the editor in chief of Outlook: Columbus, the town's glossy gay monthly.
The floor-to-ceiling windows on either side of the house meant that I could see straight through it, to the glossy doors of more town houses.
The magazine in question, a glossy called Man About Town, folded decades ago, and the object of Joel's undying affection is an anonymous swimwear model whose photograph Joel first saw as a young man.
The Sunday Times Colour Section (later the Sunday Times Magazine) was influenced by the style of glossy consumer magazines such as Town and Queen, and the colour photojournalism seen in overseas titles Paris Match and Life.
The taut, new wave-inspired pop-rock of Around U and Lost and Found's saga of small-town escape and glossy 80s AOR chorus suggest Goulding has been keeping watch on Taylor Swift's path to global domination, and perhaps her headline-grabbing habit of writing songs about her high-profile love life, too.
"Too excessive" is, of course, redundant; a worse flaw than verbosity is poeticism, like: "It was a time when desire, more arousingly than ever, must have draped its glossy peacock-feathered cloak across this town".
One Friday afternoon, he showed up at the concrete shopping mall in the town center wearing a glossy black hooded coat, a long black skirt over gray sweatpants, green-and-yellow sneakers, and earphones — religious gangster attire.
The slick montages of Rahul and Riana on the town are part travelogue, part glossy advertisement for life in a mall.
The next day, we drove about five miles south to the town of Coatepec, through vast groves of glossy coffee plants.
