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Word: glamourize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like other famous New York attractions, Bloomingdale's has been visited by millions of tourists from all over the country. Now it is moving to sell to them in their home towns too. Current issues of McCall's, Town & Country and Glamour magazines carry four-page abbreviated Bloomingdale's catalogues offering 29 selections that can be ordered by mail from the store's "Christmas in New York Collection." Among them: a "Wonder Wok" for $28, Aramis "executive" soaps for "your favorite male chauvinist," an electronic calculator in a silver Tiffany case for $150 and Rudi Gernreich-styled underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Leadin Toward A Green Christmas | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

WILLIAM JAMES once called journalism "criticism of the moment at the moment," and Edward Epstein thinks that's still the best that can be said for the press. According to Epstein, the glamour surrounding investigative reporting in the post-Watergate era is misplaced. "Journalists are rarely, if ever, in a position to establish the truth or themselves," he says, "and they are therefore almost entirely dependent on self-interested 'sources' for the version of reality that they report." Journalists can only report the sides of an issue--the very nature of their work keeps them from getting to the bottom...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Apologetics | 11/12/1975 | See Source »

What manner of man becomes a Secret Service agent? The job requires an inordinate amount of risk and dedication; the hours are dreadful; the pay ?soon to be $22,000 on the average ?not extraordinary. Nor can an agent gain any glamour by discussing his work: it is, quite plainly, secret. The allure is there, however. There are always more applicants than jobs, and the Service's annual turnover rate is a remarkably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET SERVICE: LIVING THE NIGHTMARE | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...glamour gluttons of Beverly Hills, whose excursions into the technology of beauty have popularized such treatments as acid peels, sandpapering and surgical nips, are pushing a new aid to the perfect face. It is Preparation H, the widely advertised ointment sold over the counter to shrink hemorrhoids (painfully enlarged veins in the anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Aug. 11, 1975 | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe with a sad history--a lot of Red Sox clubs winning hearts and losing still; heros now dead or in the insurance business. Fenway is outmoded and wonderful, decaying like baseball itself is decaying: slowly shedding off its crowds, its glamour, and its primacy in American life...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Introducing...the Boston Red Sox | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

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