Word: blonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided to reassess my goals and change my tactics. I wasn't counting on getting shorter or blonder or cuter, so I decided to create a new niche for myself. I was an avid reader of Sports Illustrated, and I was great at dispensing love advice, even if I didn't have the opportunity to use any of it myself...
...over sturgeon, chips and a magnum of champagne (or was it a cup of tea?), the British novelist, Julian Barnes, famous for his inscrutability, consented to let me interview him. The official photographs of Barnes show a darkly brooding, almost Mephistophelean presence. He is in real life, taller and blonder than one would ever dare imagine, inhabiting a room effortlessly and completely. He is neither tweedy like Michael Holroyd nor dandiacal like Tom Wolfe and sits coiled in a too-small armchair. His presence is gently mocking. We tacitly acknowledge the irony which is inherent in the enterprise of claiming...
Part tough New Yorker, part sunny Texan, Mary Elizabeth Smith is the daughter of a Fort Worth cotton broker. She is up-front about the face-lifting ("Only one, really") and the hair ("Ever notice how women on TV get blonder as they get older?"). A University of Texas graduate who married and divorced twice, she admits to being a "glitter kid" from way back. "Walter Winchell was my idol," she says. "I wanted to go to the Stork Club." Arriving in New York City in 1949, she learned her trade at Modern Screen, Newsweek and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...