What other topics do you think deserve Soft Focus coverage?
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That soft-focus impression wasn't inaccurate, but it was decidedly incomplete.
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How did Soft Focus 's segment on campus rape come together?
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But it wasn't just Cardi who benefitted from Collin's soft-focus glow.
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I don't want to see what's happening through a soft focus lens.
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"It's a soft-focus finish that stays matte all day," Razzano says.
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Dunham's picks are pretty sweet, with soft focus filters and bucolic backdrops.
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He pegs the soft-focus look as the biggest burgeoning trend for 2019.
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You can use it for bokeh and soft-focus effects without digital processing.
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Roberto De Biasio's soft-focus tenor made the caddish Pinkerton a mild, ineffectual presence.
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It's probably the soft-focus endearing way in which the personality descriptions are written.
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A soft-focus scent commercial for the famously least-groomed candidate in the field?
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No soft focus But the international curiosity about China holds a downside, according to Polumbaum.
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Affable, upbeat works by Robert Ward, who died in 2013 at 95, bracketed a program of approachable but diffuse Americana, with a picturesque piece by Mason Bates and a soft-focus reverie by Sarah Kirkland Snider accompanying a soft-focus video meditation on memory by Mark DeChiazza.
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And fair play, The resulting video, which we're premiering here, takes on that Coppola soft-focus style.
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The brush features long, rounded bristles so you can blend bold shadows and achieve a soft focus.
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"Living History," published during her first term in the U.S. Senate, is an evasive, soft-focus memoir.
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Rich L.: I don't know why you're so down on what you call "soft-focus" NFL features.
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Turning her back on loud, emphatic, digitally hyped productions, Ms. Del Rey was whispery, soft focus, leisurely.
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Hamilton had long been a controversial figure for his highly sexualized, soft-focus photographs of young girls.
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Even as her husband described her in soft focus, controversy over an issue revived questions about her candor.
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However funny and (presumably) ironic, the insurgency gained traction as Renoir's soft-focus, saccharine Impressionism came under fire.
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Unsurprisingly, his solo album here, called "Swaecation," is the most liquid, the most soft-focus of the three.
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Like an Instagram filter, it's meant to bathe recent memories in the warm, soft-focus glow of nostalgia.
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His talent is rooted in the distressed way he deploys his voice — soft-focus, faded at the edges.
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But with its sun streaks, soft focus and off-kilter framing, the photo has a fleeting, ethereal quality.
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Its base is large, white, and rounded — not something from an industrial kitchen, but a soft-focus utopian future.
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The docusoap turns real terror into a talking head testimonial, and real familial love into a soft-focus montage.
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Ann Craven's painted birds, set against a soft-focus background, have a kitsch quality, but with a provocative edge.
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In the soft-focus video, the whole crew lets loose at the beach, a combination of exuberant and silly.
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The comments on their recaps were almost exclusively written by gay men in those early, soft-focus-lensed seasons.
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Indeed the selfie was chewing all the scenery, with her sticks and soft-focus filters — everyone a Norma Desmond.
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Previously, iPhones needed two lenses to take Portrait Mode photos, which gives photos a gauzy, DSLR-esque soft-focus background.
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There are gorgeous dresses and soft-focus moments and a below-deck dance party I never really wanted to stop.
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If you're into the whole soft-focus romance thing and really enjoyed Shakespeare in Love, you'll appreciate these long chapters.
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The frame keeps Jules in focus, allowing the full frontal nudity in front of us to remain in soft focus.
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Soft Focus Dreamy pastels and diffused metallics work for any event the zodiac has in store for you this month.
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To the right of the front door is an intimate, soft-focus cocktail alcove that doubles as a waiting area.
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And I'll be damned if Instagram's soft focus, and even the odd lurch into blessedness, doesn't lower my defenses to advertising.
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The pieces appear more like the soft-focus watercolors of Monet than a permanent body modification crafted with ink and needle.
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It's shot with the same bleary, soft-focus 35-millimeter haze that seemed characteristic of this genre in the early 90s.
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It's a surrealist soft-focus street adventure taking cues from low-budget science-fiction films and first-person-shooter video games.
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A trade tradition since 1963, the Pirelli Calendar has typically been a celebration of classically beautiful white women shot in soft focus.
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But the final episodes aren't going to be some kind of soft-focus, sentimental send-off — at least, not for a while.
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By the '270s, the soft-focus monthly Playmates – as sanitized in their way as Breck girls – lay a-moldering on the page.
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He knows it may be the conflation of several evenings, bleeding into one another, blended and polished into soft focus by time.
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But you used a soft-focus light that made him out to be just another guy — albeit with some "alt" political views.
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If it was printed on pulpy paper, and had a soft-focus drawing of a youngish person on the cover, I was in.
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Before I can reconsider, I pull into the gravel driveway, angelic soft-focus fetus still supervising it all, like T.J. Eckleburg in utero.
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QUIÑ "Remind Me" QUIÑ will shuffle you off to dreamland with her soft-focus song, full of flowered prairie dreses and blonde locs.
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To create a look that's super-soft focus, Arnett suggests applying a bit of translucent powder to the lids before adding color shadow.
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The impressionist video's a good fit, following Tucker through a soft-focus house party and city streets all as she bleeds green paint.
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Yet behind the soft-focus India that Mr Modi personifies, the contours of a harder-edged regional power are emerging under his leadership.
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It uses mostly muted colors, and many scenes are shot in soft-focus wide shots, to let in more of the gentle ambience.
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Setting the birds in many of the paintings against a soft-focus background lends them a kitsch quality, but with a provocative edge.
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Previously, Portrait Mode — the iPhone's soft focus, bokeh-esque photo effect — on last year's iPhone XR was designed specifically for portraits of humans.
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I register the Christian connotation of the term "pregnancy counseling clinic" only when I reach a sign adorned by an angelic, soft-focus fetus.
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In the beach-front Concert Garden her face, in soft focus, beams down from posters promising "a Germany where we live well and gladly".
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The episode intermittently crosscuts with the soft-focus vision of a distant tomorrow inhabited by Old Man Rick, as the fandom has termed him.
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The one disaster that has occurred — to Mattie's friend Yasmine — is elided from the action of the novel, and rendered soft-focus and ambiguous.
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Dubbed the Movie Maker's Kit, it offered a bunch of optical gadgets to let you add blur, fish-eye effects, soft-focus, and other looks.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An orchestra soars over the soft-focus aerial view of waves rolling along the shore of a tropical island.
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BROADLY: How would you describe Soft Focus to someone who just woke up from a 20-year cryptogenic freeze and doesn't know anything popular culture?
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You can O.D. on the tongue-in-cheek prettiness of his painting's soft-focus glow or marvel at the discreetly dysmorphic bodies of his subjects.
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Not only does the skin-plumping formula work for wrinkle reduction, but the safflower seed oil and glycerin boost skin's hydration for a soft-focus glow.
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You, too, can look like you came out of a problematic, soft-focus 80s movie or music video—as soon as the humidity hits 60 percent.
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Usually, though, it's in the form of a soft-focus video running you through the day of some young business professional ten years in the future.
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"If you want to map hot spots in a fire, some of them are pretty small," says Scott, too small for the soft-focus SWIR to catch.
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First, I apply the Vapour Organic Soft Focus Skin Perfecting Primer all over, which is made with camellia and sunflower seed oils for a soft, mattifying finish.
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Who knew that what Vanessa Paradis' soft-focus pervy-pop classic really needed was a hard as nails, acidic reworking courtesy of Kompakt founder mainstay Jurgen Paape?
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Claire McCaskill, released an ad (complete with sentimental soft focus and golden lightening) last week saying he supports forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions.
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The dreamily soft-focus camera obscura projections are upside down, the natural result of its optics, but also a further suspension of the world as normally perceived.
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It's a concentrated decoding operation that requires the keen, exhausting vision of a predator and not the soft focus that allows all doors of perception to swing open.
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The nodal network — its flat landscape, its grid under a soft-focus lens, its sublime elimination of flaw and filigree — was a metaphor for both ownership and containment.
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That's the Trump we could see this fall, all smiles and soft focus and charisma — an endlessly appealing magnet for TV producers, no matter what his policies are.
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In Kloss's case, makeup artist Hung Vanngo likes to dust shadow along the upper and lower lash lines, blending the color well for a super soft-focus effect.
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Particularly as I could probably accomplish the exact same look by shooting in soft focus with my GH5 and applying a couple of color filters in Adobe Premiere.
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We didn't love it, so we changed over to one of those 1970s-looking classics with soft focus and pubic hair but soon got bored of that, too.
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A man who loved his montage, Mr. Meyer directs the film as a succession of gag cartoons, many in close-up, with intermittent interludes of soft-focus sex.
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And then there was Prince, who with heels, black eyeliner, and an unapologetic sex appeal swaddled in lace and shot in soft focus, demonstrated the malleability of gender.
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And the charming video is a soft-focus pastel fantasy, a celebration of friends who let you act your goofiest and summers where you get to live free.
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The latest iterations, however, have smart technology — soft-focus filters, breathable textures — and skin-care-level ingredients, making them function as highlighter, serum and moisturizer in one tube.
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There the narrative — carried forward in a few words and Park's meticulously observed, soft-focus illustrations — takes first one unexpected and altogether magical turn, then another, and another.
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And the reward — more than catching a ton of fish — is a sort of soft-focus state of poised relaxation, totally losing yourself in a piece of water.
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Even DeCarava's shooting and printing style signify a bygone era: black and white, soft-focus, murky portraits which spoke to the essence of that then still developing art form.
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The gaze is tempered by the soft focus of the images, which creates a balance between the graphicness some associate with BDSM and the romance Opie wanted to convey.
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"Blast through 'good enough' and become capable of the extraordinary," one Instagram post reads, the text running below a soft-focus photo of Bilyeu staring off into the distance.
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Jena Friedman, who wrote for "The Late Show" and is currently host of her own show on Adult Swim, "Soft Focus," said that the essay had a huge impact.
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By contrast, the soft focus and pastel colors of Erizku's photographs represent Beyoncé's skin with a lush and inviting sensuality while also evoking the sentimentality appropriate for a pregnancy announcement.
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Filmed in a video rental store in Croydon, London, it's soft focus-tastic: neon lights, permed hair and plastic accessories and Ladyhawke looking gorgeously jubilant in the midst of it.
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" The show's curious soft-focus visual homogeneity establishes "less a set of features and more an effect: a pixilated, approximate sexiness — the sense that everything is in the right place.
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But what emerged at the event, attended by hundreds of world leaders and their top officials, was a soft-focus vision of the next four years if Trump wins reelection.
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"Reporters at Wirecutter named it their favorite watering wand, saying that it "breaks hose water down into a gentle cascading shower suitable for soft-focus shampoo commercials, or watering patio plants.
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If this isn't the luxury you've always dreamed of, a soft-focus version of what you always thought rich adults would eat as a wide-eyed child, we don't know what is.
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At her first 12-step meetings, sipping bad coffee in church basements, she bridles at the clichés—the "insistence on soft-focus greeting-card wisdom" when she longed for nuance and novelty.
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Mr. Trump followed up his New York speech with a couple of soft-focus interviews, telling one reporter that he would be "more disciplined," and use a teleprompter like a proper politician.
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The films were shot in the dreamy soft-focus style that also defined his photographs for fashion and advertising assignments in the 1960s and '70s, and for more than two dozen books.
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Mr. Trengove shoots the film in intimate wide-screen, getting in close to the characters as they tamp down explosive feelings, often letting the spectacular landscapes break down into soft-focus abstractions.
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NBC's greatest sin has long been that it programs the Olympics not as a sporting event or even a news event but as a soft-focus entertainment event, a newsmagazine like Dateline.
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Remember the outcry on social media last year over Melania Trump's official White House portrait, which was so fuzzy and soft-focus it looked as though angels were about to start strumming?
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A promotional video for Die Eden Projek (The Eden Project) contrasts images of black rioters, black criminals and President Jacob Zuma with soft-focus photos of happy white families with tractors and chickens.
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But even when it did something dumb, it usually followed up that moment with a smarter decision, which kept whole evenings of programming from sliding off a cliff into mawkish, soft-focus platitudes.
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The campaign is a soft-focus, "you go girl" branding effort that skips over more difficult questions about the trade-offs women make between work and home in favor of celebrating their success.
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In the first two episodes of "Soft Focus," which hopefully will have many more, Friedman seems to suggest that getting pranked is not that different from being a woman in a sexist culture.
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We don't often see Cardi in a soft focus glow, dripping in diamonds, since many of her visuals have tended to rely on a crispness and affinity with gold and black tones so far.
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FORM was organized by the Florida band Hundred Waters, which headlined Saturday night with a set of soft-focus dance-pop much less meditative than what was on offer the rest of the time.
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Her images, with large expanses of milky soft focus, exude an ethereal (sometimes saccharine) quality, but when returning to Hamilton's process and her framing question, vulnerability rises as a central concern in the project.
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It's not far off three years old, and there's still a strong argument for Treasure Tracker being Nintendo's best-looking game to date, despite the soft-focus filter provided by the GamePad's 480p display.
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That cocoon vanishes in the chaos of the morning after, and with so much suddenly going wrong for them, we get to see friction creep in around the soft-focus edges of their love.
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Singer Shehzaad Jiwani begins the next song with an altered perspective ("Soft focus fade from sight, into nothing at all"), which only darkens and slips further down the rabbit hole as the tracklist continues.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, after decades of scholarship and work in consumer protection, has the ability to challenge O'Rourke on how his soft-focus appeals for unity can deliver concrete economic gains for struggling families.
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Ivanka Trump pushes soft-focus content about her work on women's empowerment to 6.2 million Facebook followers, while Eric Trump and Don Jr. split their time owning the libs across Fox News, Twitter, and Instagram.
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"Live Baby Live" captures INXS at its peak; "Mystify" uses intimate interviews with Hutchence's inner circle (U2's Bono, Kylie Minogue and the model Helena Christensen) to paint a soft-focus picture of the singer.
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Should Ms. Ramsay-Levi be named to the post, it would present yet another change for the brand, away from Ms. Waight Keller's soft-focus cool, and into a harder-edge, more techno-hip aesthetic.
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The tranquility of the scenery and Wu's voice, the poetry that so often refers to the symbolism of the sky, the video's soft focus going in and out; these all create a profoundly meditative atmosphere.
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The latest sneaky star of this new wave, the comedian Jena Friedman, introduces a gonzo feminist perspective in her Adult Swim show, "Soft Focus With Jena Friedman" that doesn't just crack jokes about misogynist violence.
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Real Estate songs have always provided the listener with a soft-focus sense of nostalgia, but on In Mind his thoughts are just as much on what's happening now, as casting a glance over his shoulder.
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If trippy, pulsating, Emeralds-on-speed swampy cosmic slop that comes slathered with vaseline-smeared-soft-focus vocals is your bag then, well, you've probably spent hours and hours and hours in Smith's fantastic company already.
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Neither of us has been much satisfied by the kind of copulation I imagined when I heard the word non-vigorous: soft focus, lots of candles and satin and slow jams, like a Mariah Carey video.
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The last time the Olympics came to South Korea, in 1988, Korean pop music was awash in soft-focus ballads, a gentle and demure version of the sounds that were taking hold elsewhere in the world.
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Blending irreverent comedy, soft-focus romance and historical re-examination, Mr. Gardley also draws on Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," whose bloody conspirators have nothing on the plotters here — and there's an array of suspects to choose from.
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Part of it had to do with the fact that her success at Chloé over the preceding six years had been built on a soft-focus aesthetic different from the more severely chic lines of Givenchy.
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As author of two books, Psychic Soviet and Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, and host of Soft Focus, the greatest music talk show ever, Svenonious knows his stuff when it comes to music.
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Other images are comfortingly mundane: in one, scissors hang above her head top of the frame as St. Onge performs a haircut; in another, her mother, face in soft focus, blows out the candles on a birthday cake.
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This soft-focus profile isn't just a rare glimpse into the life of a press-shy political spouse; it's the Cruzes' attempt to make their family, and therefore Ted, look good in the key weeks before Election Day.
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Across the bottom and curving up gently toward the right, approaching but not meeting the roofline, is an equally hefty black shape that, in soft focus, recedes in space: a raised roadbed with a single blurry streetlamp, dark.
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After all, the cover is Hallmark-card treacly (poppies in soft focus), the publisher is known for its woo-woo titles, and the author, who calls herself a "loveologist," is also in the business of selling personal lubricants.
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And in the wonderfully-titled "Sushi and Lipstick," in which pinks, oranges and reds hold center stage, the artist's penchant for soft-focus brushwork ensures that the distinction between raw seafood and the mouth that devours it remains unsettled.
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In the soft focus image the pop star wears a huge pair of technicolor butterfly wings and while she at first appears to be nude she's actually wearing a sheer bodysuit embellished with very purposefully placed pink Swarovski crystals.
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The girls giggle, take soft-focus glamour shots decked out in acid-wash denim jackets, and—because after all, it's still a sci-fi series—El explodes a soda on a group of mean girls using her mind powers.
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It's a woozy piece that—if you watch it for long enough—actually feels a bit like being on ecstasy; your vision turning soft focus at the peripheries as you trace new shades and forms in a swirling sea.
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His chaotic and colorful collections are noted for a gender-bending, nostalgia-tinged, soft-focus flare, and he has been touted as Gucci's commercial savior, reigniting sales after the Italian luxury house spent several seasons in the commercial wilderness.
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Wedding social-media jargon with the soft focus of Hallmark movies, the series stars Brandon Micheal Hall (last seen in ABC's "The Mayor") as Miles, a podcast host who to his understandable surprise receives a "friend request" from God.
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But why stop at a perfectly soft-focus canvas when you can have foundations, complexion boosters, and concealers, too — all designed to make a perfectly indistinguishable haze out of oversized pores while satisfying our unrelenting need for fresh, glowy skin.
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On previous iPhone models (7 Plus, 8 Plus, and X), Portrait Mode, which adds a soft-focus background to images, required two cameras, but the iPhone Xr is able to detect an image's depth and add bokeh to a scene digitally.
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A warm, neon-streaked document of soft-focus synth-pop and effervescent electronic sounds, the record is a love letter to Italo disco and the idea of being in Italy itself, its handmade cover art acting as the postage stamp.
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In December the Spanish edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine published a soft-focus video of the couple embracing and talking about their life together — precisely the sort of thing that, to listen to Vargas Llosa, "literally produces horror" in him.
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The portrait, taken by the White House photographer Shealah Craighead, is also unlike the highly airbrushed official portrait of Mr. Trump's wife, Melania, which was released in April and features a Sphinx-like first lady, albeit with a soft focus.
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A Japanese rice bowl capped with golden slices of pork cutlet, held together with barely cooked eggs and translucent onions — textures exaggerated, colors saturated, aromas made visible — occasionally twinkling in soft focus, as if seen through a Vaseline-greased lens.
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Oh, and just in case Stories wasn't turning into a vanity contest already, according to Mari Smith via Matt Navarra, Facebook is now testing a Selfie mode in the Stories camera with a Soft Focus option similar to the recent Instagram Focus launch.
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Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, hired a Hollywood publicist — who recently quit — to join them in the White House, and in soft-focus interviews, her books and social media feeds, she's portrayed as a savvy entrepreneur who cares about women.
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The appeal of the video is its soft-focus normalcy; it acts as a baptismal antidote to the former image of Kim and Kanye, all furs and lingerie, cleavage and peekaboo, built on worship of the intertwined pillars of fashion and fame.
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So if "tropical house" helps listeners imagine beaches and palm trees he has no incentive to object—he has perfected a kind of soft-focus exoticism, promising to take listeners far away while providing tantalizingly few details about where they are going.
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Because for Americans who tuned in to the announcement on Tuesday, or who will see the pictures of the nominee (most of which have a strange, soft focus) but probably will not bother to research the jurisprudence, his look may be convincing.
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As a designer, she has seemed content to let her brands be the stars, and her work, both at Chloé and in her former position as designer of Pringle of Scotland, was marked by a soft-focus, accessible elegance with a tailored line.
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No one expected Megyn Kelly's move from inflammatory Fox News host to soft-focus daytime talk show host to be a smooth ride but, if the first week is any indication, it's going to be a lot more awkward than we could have imagined.
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Because the Sanctum's signature fusion of lurid content and arch humor toeing the line of camp offered many thespians a reprieve from a diet of soft-focus melodramas and dignified theatre work — not to mention a quick check — it attracted the cream of the day's crop.
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As such, they didn't feature the sounds of audience laughter and were often less reliant on punchlines and more reliant on a kind of soft-focus drama — too light to have the sharper edges of a Hill Street but darker than something like contemporary comedy Cheers.
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It's really not a bad way to structure the season — there are only so many times I can watch Moss suffer in a soft-focus close-up, and there are only so many ways the show can punish her in ways that feel tied to the story.
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Whether that be "Queen of Country" Philomena Begley in 60 or former boyband singer Derek Ryan in 2017, it's a genre that sticks to its soft-focus, pastoral aesthetic with such dedication that it's turned into a running Twitter joke, but more on that in a second.
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There are also interludes of inducement, submission and compliance mixed in with a sweet, soft-focus romance that initially involves Marston and his wife, a frustrated academic, Elizabeth Holloway Marston (Rebecca Hall, tart, brisk, essential), and soon includes a third, Olive Byrne (a very good Bella Heathcote).
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Regardless of how much soft focus lighting or Pinterest-friendly table dressing you throw at it, you can't escape the fact that it's a piece of soggy bread loaded with strands of refined sugar, designed to be eaten by someone who hasn't yet mastered chewing with their mouth closed.
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SOFT FOCUS AND NAKED JUICE VINTAGE FILTER AND BIG SHADES ADORABLE SELFIES WITH FANS AN ENVIABLE 'FRIENDS' LIST JEALOUSY-INDUCING PARTY GUESTS JEALOUSY-INDUCING FRIENDS JEALOUSY-INDUCING VACATION PHOTOS FREE-SPIRITED HIJINKS PRO-BODY POSITIVITY POSTS FLAWLESS LEVELS OF COMFORT JEALOUSY-INDUCING DINING HABITS LITERAL HIGH-JINKS…GET IT?
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The 1975's self-titled debut from 20003 was largely a straight-ahead rock album cut with a soft-focus and especially British sensibility, but I Like It When You Sleep is "rock" music only in so much as our collective definition of "rock" music is in constant flux.
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There was Brandon Maxwell's ode to "the women who have opened doors for others" in the form of soft-focus rosy day dresses and neatly tailored denim; crisp tailcoat shirting and generous, swishing ball gowns, all haloed in the air of high society yet free of any accompanying elitism.
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It's the sort of still that makes you think, 'cool, this is going to be slightly soft-focus and romantic, maybe featuring a bit of millennial pink or a washed-out cerulean background, slow motion and a color contrast that's been pulled right down to make everything dreamlike.
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When he was telling interviewer Laura Ingraham that special counsel Robert Mueller -- himself a war veteran -- made a "fool of himself," he was seated with the white marble crosses of the Normandy American Ceremony in soft focus behind him, the weight of the setting doing little to temper his mindset.
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Her career moves have often reflected her personal life, too — her wedding provided plenty of brides with Pinterest inspiration of the rose gold-accented, soft-focus-shot, unabashedly feminine variety, and it also prompted a Dress Up capsule for her Kohl's line when Conrad had a full calendar of friends' weddings.
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If you can excavate new and interesting stuff from politicians that's not a part of the freeze-dried, prepackaged, soft-focus propaganda that politicians put out, if you can fight past all of that and get to what you think is a true thing, then I like trying to do that.
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When you're the only thing that's worthWhat life is worth In addition to that album, he released a pair of singles that refined his style even further, both with nods to the 1970s: "Edition" with its soft-focus funk, and "Loving Is Easy" with its grand, confident singer-songwriter strut.
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You can see it in Mr. Anatsui's three glorious meshes of bottle caps; in Mr. Akomfrah's video triptych of human and ecological violence; and in the cordial, soft-focus studio portraits from the 1960s by Felicia Abban, regarded as the first woman in Ghana to work as a professional photographer.
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It's got all the markers of the type of true crime TV that came before podcast Serial made murder feel high-brow: soft-focus reenactments spliced between interviews with the real investigators and friends connected to the case and intense reaction shots complete with wild gesticulation and what looks like mimed shouting.
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Even in soft focus and sweaters, it'll be nearly impossible for all but Trump's most ardent supporters to separate the Spicer they see on TV from the one that declared Trump's inauguration was the most heavily attended in history, to forget about Conway's Orwellian "alternative facts" line, or to dismiss Sanders's withering credibility.
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The all-mineral coverage blends into skin so seamlessly you wouldn't even know it was there, if not for the complexion-perfecting universal tint (complete with diamond power for a soft-focus finish) and skin-care benefits from vitamins A, C, and E. This lightweight sunscreen is the only one our beauty writer wore all summer (and into fall!).
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Zac's body of work is vast: listen to him on The Ocean Party's Split, Soft Focus, Light Weight, Mess & Noise Critics Poll, B-Grade Material, Restless, Beauty Point, Guilt, IBO and The Oddfellows' Hall; Hobby Farm's Braeside; Pregnancy's Urgency; and Ciggie Witch's Stupid Hamish, Echidna Cottage, Long Weekend, Rock & Roll Juice, Classic Connection and Mad Music.
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Second-wave feminist icon Gloria Steinem signaled this political sea change in her 1992 self-esteem tract Revolution from Within, and Oprah Winfrey expertly transmuted feminist political grievance into soft-focus nostrums of self-acceptance, using her own life story as a didactic case study in the miracles wrought by a gospel of female self-help.
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I can't yet personally recommend the Nobel laureate Alice Munro's only novel, "Lives of Girls and Women," because I am saving reading my Signet paperback — which sports a soft-focus cover image of a man and a woman in a russet field in what might be rural Ontario, where Munro sets most of her fiction — for a special occasion.
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The more corporations preach the usual litany of transparency, sustainability, inclusiveness, corporate social responsibility, diversity and tolerance, and industrial giants run soft-focus advertisements telling us how much they care about us, the more Trump positions against it and conveys that he acts exactly as you would expect a businessman to act: Like a greedy S.O.B. who is singularly out for himself.
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This sounds like something that a poorly written Manic Pixie Dream Girl would cite as her favourite song in a film like (500) Days of Summer but worse, and then it would play during a scene shot with soft focus where she and the complete wetter of a protagonist lie on a really nicely made bed just fucking looking at each other.
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People involved in the discussions said that the program was not planned to be in the mold of a traditional daytime talk show, nor much like the soft-focus prime-time special Ms. Kelly hosted last May on the Fox broadcast network, which drew some harsh criticism (some of which Ms. Kelly dismissed as liberal disappointment over a friendly interview with Mr. Trump).
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It followed closely after a soft-focus Vanity Fair profile that was long on the details of his personal life—which included a childhood in the shadow of his politician father, a young adulthood spent finding himself and loving punk, and a return to his hometown of El Paso—and short on his rationale for claiming the Democratic nomination beyond a sense that he could beat Trump.
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"My Heart Will Go On"—that unfathomably popular song about watching your lover die in the freezing waters of the Atlantic due to an avoidable engineering failure, the cruelty of Billy Zane, and the carelessness of the White Star Line—was as soft-focus melodramatic as it was powerful (which is to say, very), and we saw no Céline but the lovelorn, ballad-singing Céline.
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Even though Violet Chachki, the winner of the seventh season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," was the ubiquitous celebrity guest of the week; Clare Waight Keller added a powerful female designer voice to the mix; and there was more diversity on the runways, the shows can still resemble the inside of a snow globe, like scenes from a soft-focus fairy tale, frozen in place.
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The designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were thinking about the way Cuba is frozen in the imagination, which led them to their own past, which led them to red, a nod to the favorite color of the label's founder, but in washed brocade and silk to give the clothes the soft focus of age, plus Tropicana bomber jackets and skirts and dresses encrusted in wooden micro-beads and, well, a lot more.
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But I preferred their bloodiness to the Krispy Kreme soft-focus glaze that coated the indie darling "The Last Black Man in San Francisco," a film by Joe Talbot (also white), about the economic tides eroding communities of color in the Bay Area, and the efforts of a character named Jimmie to reclaim his childhood Victorian home (reminiscent of the one the lead actor, Jimmie Fails, lived in until he was 6).
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But I preferred their bloodiness to the Krispy Kreme soft-focus glaze that coated the indie darling "The Last Black Man in San Francisco," a film by Joe Talbot (also white), about the economic tides eroding communities of color in the Bay Area, and the efforts of a character named Jimmie to reclaim his childhood Victorian home (reminiscent of the one the lead actor, Jimmie Fails, lived in until he was 6).
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Right from the kickass 1960s movie-style opening credits video (which boasted, among other things, that Apple is powered by "100% renewable energy"), through the unveiling of Apple News+ (which reminded us that now more than ever, "quality journalism matters"), via the titanium Apple Pay credit card, to the star-studded Apple TV+ launch (with its soft focus on optimistic stories and diversity), Apple CEO Tim Cook was sending one strong message: You're in The Good Place.
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Though it looks, at first glance, like the sort of soft-focus souvenir publication found in the shops of tourist destinations — more than a pamphlet, less than a coffee-table book — "The Other Side of the Coin" turns out to be a surprisingly subversive sort of memoir, one flirting with the form of a tell-all: about clothes, sure, and little gossipy tidbits (the best way to polish diamonds is with gin and water; Ms. Kelly breaks in the queen's shoes by wearing them first).
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