Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bourgeoisie squirming under cold Soviet efficiency, throwing their hotel room carpet out of the window and complaining to the management because it doesn't fly. But it's Greta Garbo's show all the way through, and she deserves it. Her lightning change from a surly Marxist to a glamorous Parisienne ought to convince the fans at last that she is no mystery woman, but the original it, oomph, and glamor girl all rolled into one, and above all a superbly talented actress...
...brief stay at Harvard, Held has found other causes for grudge. "The first day I was here the reporters quoted me as branding glamor girls 'the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists.' Actually I don't give a hoot whether the latest fad is the flapper or the glamor girl...
...reds, blues, yellows, whites. His masters are Breughel, Goya and Daumier. He does not disgrace them. Typically class-conscious canvases at the A. C. A. show: The Shoemaker, who is mending other men's shoes while barefoot himself; Brenda in a Tantrum, which shows 1939's Glamor Girl No. 1 streaming indignantly through the air; Art Patrons (see cut), a jut-jawed couple gazing bleakly at a picture they dislike. Without a message were Hallowe'en, Artist Gropper's small son Lee, in a gaudy pirate's costume, grinning out from under a cocked...
Favorite artist to collegians of the '203 was John Held Jr., who gave the flapper a vogue. Appointed to be artist-in-residence at Harvard, he announced: 1) he didn't know what he was supposed to do, 2) the flapper's modern successor, the glamor girl, "is the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists...
...woven action and reminiscence to bring their lives to a romantic head. Novels about theatre people, good or bad, have one thing in common: they delight those who are fascinated by the theatre; they bore those who are not. The Dark Star conducts itself more adroitly and with less "glamor" flapdoodle than most, yet not well enough to transcend the general rule...