Advantages: A great magazine with good content. Disadvantages: At the dearer end of the market.
-MARIE CLAIRE-
"Marie claire presents new, innovative and inspirational ideas, combining style with commonsense. A magazine of contrasts, it beckons its readers with pages of the finest fashion, beauty and food. It's a winning formula of serious journalism and a healthy dose of glamour".
Marie Claire is a thick glossy monthly magazine from IPC Media and it is Jam packed full of interesting articles that are topical and highly interesting. It celebrates its 15th year of production and it is aimed at the prime 25-39 age market. Marie Claire is a high quality, better than average, woman's fashion and beauty magazine and Its readership is over 15 million each month worldwide. -
I have been buying Marie Claire on and off for quite a few years now. They always have such great gifts offered with this magazine and the month ...
Morning_Becomes_Electra 06.05.2008
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Advantages: HIGHLIGHTS ISSUES ABOUT WOMEN IN OTHER CULTURES Disadvantages: FULL OF ADS, PATRONISING!!
MARIE - CLAIRE
I used to buy this magazine in my twenties, but then stopped. I now only read it at the hairdressers. This is why:
***WHAT DOES IT OFFER?***
Marie-Claire is a fashion magazine with special interest articles aimed at women. It's motto is "Fashion With Heart" and it is priced at £3.30. This month's issue (Jan) has 244 pages, plus a 32 page special about hair at the back (confusingly upside down).
It has an expensive glossy feel to it with heavy quality pages. However a rough estimation tells me that over 50% of it's content is ads!!. In fact, I leaf through 8 pages of ads before I even get to the editorial. Many of the ads are for high end designer companies such as Prada, Gucci and Armani.
The magazine aims to publish stories about inspirational women and takes an ethical stance (also having a 'green ...
LAURALILIA 18.01.2009
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Advantages: Stephen King's claim to fame ; Superb atmosphere ; Sublime plot ; A vivid imagination that stretches all supernatural boundaries ; Probably responsible for some of the best horror films of the 70's and 80's Disadvantages: Some unessesary background in the first half ; Kubrik mucked up the story too much ; Could have been much more
Being thoroughly refreshed and cheerful following my Misery conquest, an adrenaline rush urged me to stick my nose into yet another King classic, The Shining. Of course, generally when you've seen a certain Jack Nicholson film more times than you care to remember, you start to wonder, why bother? But then you hear how Stanley Kubrick practically threw Stephen King's novel into the fire after a quick skim read and went about making his own super version, makes you pretty inclined to read the novel that made King the bestseller he is today. Initially I was apprehensive about starting the book as I'd heard some negativity surrounding the content of the first few hundred pages. I honestly wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. For a 500 page novel I shot through it in less than a week and enjoyed it immensely, even more so than ...
Personnel: Mary Black, Paul Brady (vocals); Bill Shanley (acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin); Greg Leisz (acoustic & baritone guitars, lap & pedal steel guitars); Michael Landau (electric guitar); Larry Klein (guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion); Frank Gallagher (fiddle, whistle, keyboards); Pat Crowley (accordion, piano, Hammond organ); Jim Cox (Hammond organ); Garvan Gallagher (bass); Jerry Marotta (drums); Amy Kanter (background vocals). Engineers: Tony Phillips, Billy Robinson, Don Smith. Recorded at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California; Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland; and in Los Angeles, California via an ISDN link from Sound Studio, Melbourne, Australia. Although Mary Black's solo career has been consistently successful in commercial terms, by the time she was due to deliver this her 1997 album, critics were beginning to discern a creeping blandness about her work. Perhaps she had this in mind when she turned to bass-playing producer Larry Klein. SHINE was certainly a departure for Black, being most definitely a rock album rather than another folk-influenced offering. Indeed, the stripped-down ensemble sound-guitar, bass, and drums augmented by occasional mandolin, Hammond organ, and pedal steel-is at times reminiscent of Klein's work with his ex-wife Joni Mitchell. If the material itself rarely comes close to matching Mitchell's in quality (whose does?), there is the compensation of one outstanding song, Amy Kanter's "Beautiful," plus another of Black's periodic dips into the Richard Thompson songbook for a cover of "I Misunderstood," laced with dramatic baritone guitar.
Titles on disc 1
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Shine
2.
One And Only
3.
Almost Gone
4.
Nobody Lives Without Love
5.
I Misunderstood
6.
Trespass Shoes
7.
I Will Be There
8.
What Does It Matter
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Beautiful
10.
Late Night Radio
11.
By The Hour
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