Word: glamourization
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...Endgame.” Yet these surroundings emphasize the mainstay of Fitzgerald’s work. As the play progresses, and the narrator comes to realize the careless arrogance that defines Daisy, Tom, and Jordan, the backdrop remains a stark foreshadowing of what lies beneath the lavish glamour of these characters. Stripped of their displays of wealth, the three characters are as cold and unfeeling as the world ERS has created around them. As the set reminds us, even Gatsby has clung so desperately to a passionate dream that will never exist, that the American dream he actually has achieved...
...happened. For the marquee names of American capitalism - General Motors, IBM, CBS - he designed buildings that were more than just corporate facilities. They were signposts for modernity, theirs and the nation's. For New York City and Washington, Saarinen provided airport terminals that were symbols of the excitement and glamour of air travel. (It was once possible to think of air travel that way.) Then there was his St. Louis Gateway Arch, a gleaming vertical curve that even now could serve as the logo for Tomorrowland...
...divorcing Granger. She took a couple years off when they had a daughter, Kate (she and Granger had a son, Tracy - both children named in honor of Simmons' friends Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn); and when she was ready to return to films, her moment had passed. Her enduring glamour, and the tang she put into every line of dialogue, would have made her a welcome presence in sophisticated comedies, but nobody was writing them. Not yet 35, she had become the Older Woman in a town where that label defined an endangered species...
...Globe show, I can thank the HPFA for aligning certain constellations - as when Sophia Loren, still statuesque and preternaturally well-preserved at 75, presented the Foreign Film award to Austria's Michael Haneke, the current dean of daunting drama, for The White Ribbon. The two shook hands, and the glamour and brains of a half-century of European cinema stood together. Haneke, usually dour, but now smiling, even thanked his wife and said, "I love you." (See pictures of a previous Golden Globes...
...career has become a vehicle through which the right-wing evangelical movement feels it can express its deepest identity ... Palin is perceived by its leaders--and followers--not as another cynical politician or self-promoting celebrity, but as a kind of magical helper, the God-fearing glamour girl who parachuted into their backwater towns to lift them from the drudgery of daily life, assuring them that they represented the 'real America.'"--11/15/09...