Word: glamoured
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...ignite our lascivious fantasies, wheras Ferreri's party-makers have only our pity, and our disgust. In porn, and in "advanced" movies of the sixties such as "La Dolce Vita," say, or "L'Avventura," decadence and dissipation are chic, inviting; the houseparty in "The Grande Bouffe" is entirely without glamour. You'll remember in "La Dolce Vita" the character of Paola the Innocent who represents the possibility of a higher and finer life than the one Marcello slips into. Here, Marcello has no options--he's sunk, irretrievably, in a swamp of self-indulgence...
...Glamour. Some of the more affluent customers, such as Barbra Streisand, Sally Struthers and Diana Ross are teaming the new tops with satin pants, tweeds and other expensive items. The tops are also being paired with slacks and sporty blazers. "This all started as a junior-sportswear fad," says Jules Lebetkin, president of the boutique sportswear firm Catch-A-Guy. "It's a kind of trendy, rock-star flashiness that anybody can have fun with...
Manufacturers believe that inflation makes a bit of glamour at moderate prices attractive. "What does the working girl do when she can't afford to spend money for regular clothes?" asks Ronnie Gross, president of a group of sportswear firms that includes Quips, Questions and Quotations. He answers himself: "She can either buy a lot of cheap, imitation designer clothes that don't fool anybody. Or she can go kicky, buy a flashy shirt, and say it is something for a giggle...
...fine-art images usually came down to stereotype, for it worried him not to have things clear-cut. He understood business but not richness, which is why the interiors and garden sequences of the prince's castle in Cinderella came out with the nasty polystyrene glamour (twinkledust and all) of the Fontainebleau lobby in Miami Beach...
Indeed, the big buying action on Wall Street these days is in the stocks of sound, old-line companies like Exxon, Bethlehem Steel and Du Pont. Such glamour stocks as Xerox, IBM and Eastman Kodak are still going down, partly because there is no shortage of copiers, computers or cameras. Also, many of the former highflyers pay small dividends or none at all. The standard industrial companies often pay dividends equaling 5% to 6% of the price of their stocks and so are better able to compete against other investments in an era of still lofty interest rates...