Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kelley was finding her metier: rummaging through people's secrets, real and imagined. She wrote a free-lance article about resorts where the rich and famous frolicked, and parlayed the piece into The Glamour Spas, a book flecked with naughty gossip. This brought her to the attention of New Jersey celebrity-book publisher Lyle Stuart, who sent her off to do a job on Jackie Onassis. Kelley's friend at the time, gossip columnist Liz Smith, gave her voluminous files on Jackie, and Kitty set out on a tireless quest for the down and dirty. The book, Jackie Oh!, revealed...
Procter & Gamble made its mark with such homely household products as Crisco, Tide and Ivory soap, but now the Cincinnati-based giant is paying up for glamour. In a move to strengthen its worldwide beauty business, P&G (1990 sales: $24 billion) last week agreed to buy the Max Factor cosmetics firm and Betrix, a German makeup and fragrance manufacturer, from Ronald Perelman's debt-burdened Revlon for $1.14 billion in cash. The deal "speeds up the global expansion of the company by at least five years," said P&G chief Edwin Artzt, who has focused on foreign growth since...
...Browne notes, "This war seemed to smell more of greasepaint than of death." In time, other odors may rise, as the nation weighs the war's cost in American dollars and Arab lives. But last week Schwarzkopf gave the U.S. a warrior to be proud of. Others might see glamour in the allied victory; he would carry the memory of the dead on his burly shoulders. His Great Performance was so convincing, not because he knew it would be the finest speech of the war, but because he hoped it would be the last...
Most books set in the TV-news industry are about the drama of a big story, the intrigue of an unfolding scandal or the power and glamour and sheer money associated with being a big-league anchor, interviewer or producer. In fiction and reality, TV executives often characterize themselves the way characters do in Jon Katz's roman a clef: as ranking among "the 25,000 most successful people in the world," right up there with generals, Senators, tycoons and Third World dictators. But here the big story and intrigue are inside TV itself -- the takeover of a network very...
Katharine Hepburn once remarked that the secret to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' success was that he gave her class while she gave him sex appeal. Hepburn's equation helps explain the long and awkward tango between Hollywood and Washington. To Washington, Hollywood offered glamour; to Hollywood, Washington provided substance, or at least the illusion...