Word: glamorizations
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...back to Abraham Lincoln to make his point, Burnham said: "Lincoln also ran a campaign on trust and moral uplift. But he tied it to specific issues that people understood and rallied around. The issue was never Lincoln the man. In fact, Lincoln could never have won on personal glamor. Carter personalized his campaign around himself...
...growing interest of investors in dividends contrasts sharply with the atmosphere of the bull market of the '60s. Professional money managers then concentrated on price appreciation and ignored dividend yields. The star performers of those days-Xerox, Polaroid and other so-called glamor issues-paid little in dividends, yet held out the promise of higher profits and prices in the future. Now the high flyers' wings have been clipped and such laws as the Pension Reform Act of 1974 mandate a new prudence among managers who invest other people's money. Dozens of "index fund" managers...
Much of the glamor has rubbed off heart-transplant surgery since Dr. Christiaan Barnard's historic operation eight years ago this week in Cape Town. Discouraged by the generally low survival rate of patients, many of the surgeons who performed the early heart transplants have now abandoned the technique. There is one notable exception: Dr. Norman E. Shumway of Stanford University School of Medicine, the man who developed the technique used by Barnard. Shumway, 52, is allergic to publicity but recently broke a three-year silence on his transplant record. At a meeting of the American Heart Association...
...spite of all the glamor, the adventure of flying on Air Force One and the excitement of receiving phone calls from "The President," Mo Dean has some objections to Washington life. She doesn't like being limited to two drinks per party in order to preserve the sobriety of the Deans' name. She doesn't like being called away from every vacation because there is "Oh, just a little problem at the White House." She doesn't like Watergate...
XAVIERA DOESN'T escape with the image of Florence Nightengale and Mother Earth, She may like to make people happy, but it's clear that she also got into prostitution because she loves money, glamor, pretty clothes, and her own good bone structure. Far from saying anything specific about women, or about women prostitutes, the film is ambiguous enough to leave something for almost everyone. Traditionalists can see the movie as proof that, yeah, they really do like it, and that prostitutes are just typical women who want more money to spend on clothes. Others can see it as proof...