Word: glamourization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes her first conquest, the troubadour Agustin Magaldi (Jimmy Nail), whom she accompanies to Buenos Aires, a glittering Hollywood of hope for Eva. Her gift for attracting men of position leads her to Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce), a junta colonel who becomes Argentina's President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young, and leave a memory that...
...women in modern negligees and the awful birds with staring eyes that were one of Beckmann's prime images of fear and persecution. "Have you never thought," he wrote to a young woman artist, "that in the hellish heat of intoxication amongst princes, harlots and gangsters, there is the glamour of life?" That heat is everywhere in his paintings. If their forms weren't so fully and emphatically realized, if the bodies of men and women in his art were less dense and sensuously present, such dreams and visions would not have the same power...
...quality and extension of life aids sufferers when no cure exists. However, an even more disturbing implication of the article is that because basic research has not turned up the cure in these twenty five years, research has been of little value. Although basic research does not carry the glamour of a cure to a disease, that research always provides the backbone of any significant discovery or invention...
...cyclical, part of the usual flux and reflux that have also seen harder drugs like cocaine and heroin rise in their allure for a time, and then decline when the consequences became more luridly obvious--only to rise again when a generational forgetfulness sets in and a drug's glamour could assert itself afresh. Indeed, today some experts are worried that an obsessive concern about marijuana may confuse overall perspectives. Says Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor who specializes in national drug policy: "It's destructive to focus the country on one small part of drug use. Focusing on marijuana ignores...
That is the nitty-gritty behind what is sold as glamour. Maybe the humbling demands of a beginner's job in fashion are one reason why so many young comers tend to show off. For instance, says Wendy Dagworthy, herself a designer and director of the undergraduate school: "McQueen was determined, and he was an excellent cutter. He loved shock tactics. Many of the students here do. They're trying to get noticed, but we tell them, 'Never design only for the catwalk...