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...company, Guyrex Associates, oversees the Texas and California state franchises of the Miss USA competition as well as dozens of local pageants. Guy and Holt also serve as coaches and consultants to the young women as they strive for loftier titles. Says Holt: "We're selling a total product: glamour and all that goes with...
Sullivan, by contrast, was always too much the glamour girl, as well as prone to gaffes both on and off the air. (An open microphone once picked up $ her off-camera reference to CBS as the "Cheap Broadcasting System.") And Norville, even without the controversy that attended her rise, seems too brittle and pushy for her gentle morning duties. She comes across as the executive secretary whom everybody in the office hates dealing with...
...nation of 70 million gun owners, the N.R.A. speaks to a venerable American attachment to firearms. There may be no other society in which guns enjoy such a deeply embedded prestige or such enduring glamour. Many Americans contend that the wide distribution of firepower among all levels of society was crucial to establishing the republic and is essential to maintaining it. The N.R.A. has gone further, putting firearms at the center of a faith so fierce that the ordinary terms of political belief -- words like "conviction" and "position" -- may not be sufficient to grasp it. Says N.R.A. Executive Vice President...
...unprepared for emergency. Populism being the operative spirit of this genre, it is up to Perfection's two-man lower class, Val and Earl (adorable Kevin Bacon and solid Fred Ward), to get their betters organized. They make their living doing odd jobs, bicker laconically, dream of urban glamour, can't imagine how to obtain it. But staring into a graboid's gaping mouth, they're the kind of guys -- resourceful, practical, unflappable -- you want on your side...
...hell," says first-year student Bret S. Derman. "It's always the glamour--never the boring stuff, which is most...