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Cynthia D. Johnson '96 has been named one of Glamour magazine's Top Ten College women for 1995 Johnson received a $1,000 award and is featured in the magazine's October issue...
...perkiness and primping, the look is small-town, polyester. This is Sears, not Saks. The women would be prettier with smarter clothes and hipper hairdos. A few display true glamour and grace, but in general this is a triumph of starch over sizzle. The earnestness with which the women sell themselves would make them comfy at a Mary Kay Cosmetics convention. They radiate not fantastic beauty but fanatical effort. For some, striving to be universally liked can trigger the scent of desperation. Horn says, "They are interviewing for a job--the job of Miss America," and the pressure shows...
...Marcia has done a lot for the part of a beauty pageant you don't really think about--past the beauty and the glamour and 'stuff," said Dana D. Dore '97 of Turner's public service work...
Though this film's Van Helsing (lank, loopy Peter Fonda) sleeps inside a grand piano, Nadja is a fairly close reading of the Stoker tale. What distinguishes it is its serenely mannerist glamour. Almereyda shot parts in glorious "Pixelvision"--with a toy camera that gives the most garish images the patina of a dreamscape. Nadja is beyond a midnight movie; it's a late late show for the artistic couch potato...
...pilots nationwide are African Americans. "It has been a struggle all the way," said Perry Jones, a former Air Force flyer and Delta captain who heads the Organization of Black Airline Pilots. "We had more black pilots in 1942 than we do today." Few jobs offer as much glamour as an airline pilot's or pay so well--up to $180,000 a year at a major airline. And few jobs remain so overwhelmingly dominated by white males--97%. "Airlines only hired us because they were sued," says Patrice Clarke Washington, the first black female to gain her stripes...