Word: glamorizers
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...ensuing decades, much of that glamor faded, and the Yangtze ended up as a characterless, if perfectly respectable, midrange hotel, its interiors retaining a hint of history but sacrificing most of their charm during unsympathetic - the uncharitable might say "tacky" - renovations conducted down the decades. Not surprisingly, the hotel's new management decided to put a reassertion of 1930s style at the forefront of a lavish renovation project completed earlier this year. The Langham Yangtze Boutique now boasts the kind of rooms and public spaces that a tuxedo-clad Noel Coward would have enjoyed lolling about in, gimlet in hand...
...More glamor after the jump...
...He’d be there late at night at the law review, and because he was a smoker, he’d be outdoors on the stoop, having a cigarette, working late. It’s a pretty solitary existence there, not a lot of glamor...
...enough to attract the attention of foreign scouts. And David Beckham clearly wasn't ready for oblivion. The 33-year-old England wide man, who in 2007 joined the Los Angeles Galaxy on a $250 million five-year contract, looks set to return to Europe, next January, and join glamor club AC Milan on loan. If the deal is finalized in the wake of Milan's premature announcement Wednesday, it would mark an essential step in Beckham's bid to reclaim his place in the England squad ahead of the 2010 World...
...When Beckham renounced his status as a "Galactico" on Real Madrid's star-studded roster and headed for California, the big-money move was widely interpreted as a kind of golden parachute into retirement, bringing a touch of glamor and skill to a lower-tier league in which he could dominate. But the move to Milan, European champions just two years ago whose star-studded lineup includes the likes of the Brazilians Kaka and Ronaldino, suggests a restored ambition to return to the premier stage of the global game...