Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of hs new book. It is both a lush and a tricky subject, combining the excitement of a historic military occasion with the far-reaching complications of the death of a great Christian state. It is a tribute to Waltari that he succeeds not only in blending the glamour and the disaster of the event but also works in the sort of love story on which, as every historical novelist knows, the fate both of book sales and besieged cities depends...
...year?almost as much as the national income of Canada, or more than the value of all U.S. export trade. Negro publications, whose advertising columns were until recently dominated by hair-straighteners and skin-bleachers, are now agleam with four-color ads of all the national brands?a dusky glamour girl smiling above a pack of Luckies, Negro men of distinction sipping Calvert, a Negro executive praising Remington typewriters. (Most advertising agencies now have special Negro market consultants who see to it that ads will sell and not offend Negroes...
...while, having achieved notoriety, she was Manhattan's No. 1 glamour girl. A blonde with a fair leg and a fetching smile, she seemed to be everywhere that was anywhere, with everybody who was anybody. Columnist Leonard Lyons introduced her to a gaggle of celebrities, Broadway Star Yul Brynner and she grinned at each other over a couple of highballs at El Morocco. She appeared in Madison Square Garden at a charity rally sponsored by Walter Winchell, on half a dozen television programs, and was photographed in a soft tailleur for the Easter Parade...
...Manhattan family, it was mother who made the glamour columns: Jolie Gabor announced that she planned to marry a fellow Hungarian who "looks like a diplomat, has the soul of a poet and the mind of an American businessman." Any chance of daughters Eva and Magda finding new husbands? Said Jolie sadly: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and the best diamonds...
...Anderson as an evilly scheming Herodias, Alan Badel as a weirdly wild-eyed John the Baptist, and Stewart Granger as an intrepid Roman commander. Actress Hayworth does her best in the dance of the seven veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl in an off-the-shoulder gown by Jean Louis hairdo by Helen Hunt, and make-up by Clay Campbell. She wriggles, writhes and undulates through this predecessor of the modern striptease with such abandon, as she methodically removes as many veils (six) as the law and the Breen Office...