Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transition from glamor and glory to gore and guts is never an easy one. It's tough for a football player accustomed to the spotlight to move into a role with less prestige and recognition...
...Colo.) in the spring primaries, the time has come not only to support Fritz Mondale, but to support him with open arms. There is no excuse to hide behind the traditional criticisms of Mondale--he's boring, backward-looking, etc.--because, as Sunday's debate showed, the perception of glamor and excitement is about as deep as the celluloid it's projected on and does not stand up to a strong dose of reality...
Perhaps some of them were remembering the old days, the glory days of Columbia football. I grew up about 5 minutes from the old Baker Field, and I remember it mostly for its decrepitude and the faded glamor of the brick gates that open onto 218th St. But my father, who grew up in our house 25 years earlier, remembers a time when kids from the neighborhood used to go across the river into Manhattan and sneak around the field until they found a way to creep in. You could see some of the best teams in the country, then...
...Harvard faculty," he contends. As to why professors have become less involved, Glazer speculates. "The issues are not covering the major points of interest of the faculty. Jackson is clearly a race candidate, so there's a problem there. Mondale is close to the liberal tradition but lacking in glamor...
...Pudding show's opening night Especially if you aren't used to counting your champagne bottles by the square yard and pushing your way between velvet shoulders and clustered TV cameras just to see other people ogling Man of the Year Sean Connery. It could be considered decadent or glamor-mad, a bit peculiar--the audience's vast delight in hairy cleavages and falsetto love scenes--or, in years when the show is lousy, altogether pointless...