Word: glamoured
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...late 1960s and early '70s. For years before that, Wall Streeters thought that a P/E of 10 to 15 was normal for most companies. But as the economy rolled through the late 1960s without recession, investors got the naive idea that profits, particularly of some growth or "glamour" companies, would keep on rising rapidly forever-so that almost no price was too high to pay for the prospect of sharing in future earnings. Before the crash came in 1973-74, P/E ratios of growth companies had been bid up to stratospheric levels that the Dow Jones P/E average never...
...budgets, promises to turn into one of the flashiest tussles ever. Polaroid chose Oscar night last month to introduce its Pronto instant-picture camera before a television audience of millions; it backed up that campaign with an advertising blitz in national magazines. Kodak has the same eye for glamour. Capitalizing on the Bicentennial, it will begin national marketing of its new cameras on July 4, although some cameras will be sold before that...
...squired and sometimes seduced the world's most beautiful women, the provocative moviemaker, the daring pilot, the unchallenged and capricious captain of an industrial empire and a huge airline, the innovative weaponmaker on whom the nation's defense rested in part. Yet despite his wealth and onetime glamour, he had turned into a recluse whose obsession for privacy only intensified the curiosity about him. For the past ten years his isolation had been so complete that only his death gave proof he had still been alive...
...about? Presumably no one believes that awards have a more than fortuitous connection with quality in film. As a view of a medium laboriously patting its own back, the ceremony is without equal in the world. But how can so much narcissism be combined with so little real glamour? It is the lack of illusion that makes Oscar night look moribund. There is a point when disbelief can no longer be suspended: O.J. Simpson is not Gary Grant, and although Jacqueline Bisset may be the most beautiful girl in the world, she is not Ava Gardner. Without such priests...
Recognizing the glamour of Grand Prix and hoping it would somehow rub off on Long Beach, city fathers and race promoters three years ago began organizing a Monaco-style race through the city streets. There were a few problems, of course. Long Beach harbors seldom entice millionaires' yachts, and the local royalty consists entirely of wax dummies aboard the Queen Mary museum. But Grand Prix supporters predicted that the challenging 2.02-mile circuit designed by former Grand Prix Winner Dan Gurney and a $265,000 prize purse would offset the deficiencies...