Word: glamorization
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...halfway through a tongue-in-cheek version of Robin Hood, based on the Errol Flynn movie and filmed in color with Robert Kennedy Jr. '76 in the leading role. Maid Marion was originally designed for a sophomore named Nicole Bourgois. It's inspired--an adventure story with Harvard's glamor stars. One can almost see it on the marquee...
...still lacked the distance that could analyze. I was too busy learning how to cope with my new status--the status of "Beautiful Person," i.e. rich bitch. I found it pinned upon me like an epithet. Glamor, I was discovering, signalled at Harvard a licensed free-for-all for aggressive attention. Be it jealousy or secret sex dreams, contempt just depended on the particular form of the particular insecurity. Glamor got attention all right. Glamor meant a presence to be dealt with, to be talked about, gossiped about, pigeon-holed, and dismissed with a movie magazine's form of voyeurism...
...This glamor business was fast festering as the royal ass pain of my life, and one with a built in Catch-22 at that. Harvard, you see, has an ongoing hate-love affair with glamor. It pretends to despise what fascinates it most, and presents an indifferent face to what it cannot leave alone...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.--Among those assembled to pay homage to the 1973 crop of baseball all-stars, scheduled to play here tonight (8 p.m. EST), is the usual throng of hangers-on associated with any event offering glamor, celebrities, and free liquor. The hangers-on are small town reporters, former scouts, and public relations men who all have jobs or titles much too big for their roles...
...enough that the audience is practically sitting in the performers' laps, the unified effect of dancing bodies is constantly being interrupted by close-ups of bits of anatomy--a thigh or a wrist, even a set of armpits. And, for a touch of glamor, there are artistic effects, like Nureyev divided into six images, all kicking each other in the head. This kind of overbearing camerawork is an insult tothe efforts of the performers and to the intelligence of the audience...