Word: glamor
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...think the media has been lazy," Debra Garrett, Crampton's press secretary said last night. "There were a lot of real issues in this campaign--real favoritism and corruption on Crane's part--that were lost in the Hatch-King glamor...oh, what have I said," Garrett giggled, sipping out of a wine glass...
...Republican groupies stepped soft-shoe through the crimson glamor of the Harvard Club, looking at oak wall fixtures and wondering at the absurdity...
McInally left with everything except an Ivy League football championship for himself, and while McDermott was no glamor boy, his glamorous moments as a junior during the 1975 season copped the Crimson its first outright championship ever...
These are the sad facts that Father Thomas O'Neill, the fortuitously-named hero of James Reid's The Offering, must learn all too slowly. For O'Neill--a pro-Irish Nationalist Catholic priest in a pro-Irish Nationalist Catholic parish in Cambridge, Mass.--learning to see through the glamor and romance that surround the struggle in Ulster is an unusually difficult process. Like so many Irish-Americans, O'Neill has been raised by his good Catholic parents to view the agony of Ulster as a sort of holy war against the last vestiges of British heathenism--a holy...
...draftees, the correspondents in Vietnam were volunteers, making their careers off the soldiers' battles, and the soldiers were always aware of it. In the back of their minds, Herr writes, all the correspondents were looking for the ultimate war movie, and it took them some time to discover that glamor wasn't going to be found in Vietnam. "I went to cover the war," he writes, "and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard...