Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when people traveled over the seas in ships. By 1960, though, more people were crossing the Atlantic by air than by water, and the big luxury liners had begun a long slide into nostalgic memory; hardly any are left on the Atlantic run. Yet down in the Caribbean, the glamour of the swaying grand saloon lived on: cruise ships, populated primarily by the gray and affluent set, visited the islands in style. And today the cruise business is flourishing as never before, the lure of low-priced charter flights to everywhere notwithstanding. Bookings in North America, which account for more...
...ranch-house visit from a cold-eyed Dallas banker holding an overdue mortgage. But just as the years tamed the ostentation of Dallas wealth, so has success slowly transformed the Cowboy image. The coldness has become cool professionalism, with a soupgon of eccentricity. The Cowboys have become the glamour team of pro football, home to the dazzling rookie with the accent on the second syllable, Dorsett. In the old days, nicknaming a Dal las player consisted of calling Defensive Tackle Robert Lilly "Bob." Now the Cowboys boast "Manster" Linebacker Randy White (for each of the things he is half...
Rogers agency ads for Blackglama mink coats picture celebrities such as Lillian Hellman, Shirley MacLaine, Brigitte Bardot, Beverly Sills and Lena Horne in curious poses, always unidentified, wearing the $7,000 garment, under the head: "What becomes a legend most?" This emphasis on mystery and glamour is characteristic of the agency's work. And the style pays off. Blackglama sells eight of every ten mink coats marketed...
...coaches loose to travel and meet prospective football players. The mails are too impersonal to give a young man a good picture of a football program in which he hopes to become deeply involved. And perhaps coach Restic can interest some intelligent athletes too caught up in the glamour of bigtime football into looking at Harvard as an alternative to the sometimes difficult path of a total committment to football...
...birthday, Wenner evidently decided that major changes were in order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan. Wenner then reaped another bumper crop of publicity when he cultivated the acquaintance of two pseudocelebrities (famous only by dint of their surnames). William Randolph Hearst III and Jack Ford, and gave them a magazine supposedly all their own, Outside...