Word: glamoured
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...meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue by the power of beauty/ ...this detachment/ The honored aesthetic evil..." Dickey took on a passing Hollywood glamour in the '70s, when Deliverance became a best seller and Burt Reynolds starred in the movie...
...makes her first conquest, the troubadour Agustin Magaldi (Jimmy Nail), whom she accompanies to Buenos Aires, a glittering Hollywood of hope for Eva. Her gift for attracting men of position leads her to Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce), a junta colonel who becomes Argentina's President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young, and leave a memory that...
...women in modern negligees and the awful birds with staring eyes that were one of Beckmann's prime images of fear and persecution. "Have you never thought," he wrote to a young woman artist, "that in the hellish heat of intoxication amongst princes, harlots and gangsters, there is the glamour of life?" That heat is everywhere in his paintings. If their forms weren't so fully and emphatically realized, if the bodies of men and women in his art were less dense and sensuously present, such dreams and visions would not have the same power...
When she's not wading through this noble sludge, Houston puts on a fine show. Lord knows she has the pipes, leading the choir or crooning a galvanic I Believe in You and Me. The pity is that Marshall believed less in movie glamour and more in plodding plot...
...quality and extension of life aids sufferers when no cure exists. However, an even more disturbing implication of the article is that because basic research has not turned up the cure in these twenty five years, research has been of little value. Although basic research does not carry the glamour of a cure to a disease, that research always provides the backbone of any significant discovery or invention...