Word: glamorizing
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Aside from the glamor of conservation and the excitement of unique discoveries, the Center's specialists must often do the more tedious and undesirable work of cleaning pieces of art. Paintings often become infested with worms, beetles, and other pests. Lab workers recently removed an 11th century Chinese polychrome wood statue from exhibition at the Fogg for the first time since 1928. They had to fumigate the piece in a special lab to rid it of powder-post beetles...
Harvard switched from club to varsity level in 1980, and it's the need to play catch-up that has kept Harvard second to Brown. There have been no special signals sent out that water polo is any different from the other non-glamor teams that win in the obscurity of Harvard. As a result, attempts to recruit have had little luck: Couch Pike tells how one year he wrote to 18 application who had some polo experience to tell them about the program. Of those 18 three ware accepted; of those three two chose Suuford and one went...
...from gripping accounts of such events as the Kennedy assassination to philosophical reflections on the news business makes for a rather tame climax. But a book about this unique career in TV news would not be complete without some explanation of why a man would refuse the salary and glamor of the network anchor chair. And in spite of the plodding conclusion. MacNeil's book remains on balance a lively and informative work...
...names of dead husbands, for instance. Others, imprisoned by job descriptions, define themselves by what they do. To describe her life's purpose, one woman says. "I canned them pears/and I canned them pears." The vitality of these poems lies in the contrast of their doldrums today with the glamor of other lives and locales--the voices in the poems trap themselves but manage to describe a broad, exciting world...
...signals that America has given $1 million. Live, from Atlantic City, via the magic of television. Francis Albert Sinatra. The Chairman can't really be classed with Wayne and Tony. He is them plus talent, class, and a little subtlety, cool sophistication one step above rhinestoned trying-very-hard glamor. Sinatra sings "New York, New York," which will be sung by at least six other performers during the show, and does it a little wryly, not just the simple "If I can make it there I can make it anywhere" Babbitry of his imitators. But he doesn't stay long...