Word: glamourization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's own was at the center of glitz and glamour Saturday night, when Elizabeth E. Hancock '00, Miss Massachusetts, competed in the 78th Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City...
What sets Sosa apart is the consideration that every at-bat plays into a larger equation than the glamour of personal excellence. His first, indeed his only concern is Chicago's spot in the playoffs...
...Tennis Partner (HarperCollins; 345 pages; $25) begins, it finds Verghese moving with his wife and two sons to El Paso, Texas, a frontera culture whose dusty glamour seduces this connoisseur of border crossings. But as he separates from his wife, Verghese begins to anchor himself more and more through his regular tennis games with a charismatic Australian medical student of his called David. Only slowly does he realize that his tennis coach, student and friend is, like many doctors (he informs us), caught in a cycle of drug dependency...
...that she hadn't been asked for input in naming her successor. Fuller would not have been on her short list. "I told S.I. Newhouse [Conde Nast's owner] how disappointed I was in the choice," Whitney says. "I don't think Bonnie has the track record to uphold Glamour's journalistic standards, and I fear for what the magazine may lose. This is saying that only numbers matter and that women's magazines are just commodities...
What's next for Glamour is unclear. Fuller says she's not yet sure what she'll do but knows that she won't "throw everything out." Does she consider herself a journalist? Indeed. Says she: "I have a nose for news...