Word: glamourization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening that combined Harvard pomp with Hollywood glamour, the Parade of Stars distributed statues last night for the best undergraduate dramatic productions, publications, student organizations and sports, among others...
...Frowick Halston was the first fashion superstar, a huge personality who was the embodiment of '70s glamour, excess and hyperactive nightlife, the dresser of such gorgeous creatures as Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Lauren Bacall and Jacqueline Kennedy (he even created her pink pillbox hat). But as a designer, he was all minimalist chic. His simple, elegant lines, his use of sensual, clinging fabrics like jersey and cashmere and practical ones like Ultrasuede and his disavowal of the extraneous made him the quintessential American designer. But a businessman he was not. Long before he died...
...darling!" at key moments. Those who never come closer to the fashion world than reruns of AbFab found this very amusing. All told, the audience was as much a part of the show as the models were and they made the most of it--everybody needs a bit of glamour now and then...
...writer Ved Mehta spoke to one of Gandhi's leading political associates, a former Governor-General of independent India, C. Rajagopalachari. His verdict on Gandhi's legacy is disenchanted, but in today's India, on the fast track to free-market capitalism, it still rings true: "The glamour of modern technology, money and power is so seductive that no one--I mean no one--can resist it. The handful of Gandhians who still believe in his philosophy of a simple life in a simple society are mostly cranks...
This page, too, lacks the glitz and glamour provided by Java scripting. The page is static, which means that people probably won't keep coming back if they don't have to. Dynamic and changing sites keep a browser's attention and patronage. www.fas.harvard.edu/~alississ...