Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often the paradisiacal glamour of Illyria, the lovely songs, the immortal lines, the great bard himself, dissolve and leave but the plot behind. Now girl-in-boy's-clothing palls, now which-twin-is-which proves yawningly wearisome. Many of the jokes are far past saving and a good bit of the chop logic word play is tedious word work. In Director William's conception of the comedy, the prankishness and the poetry are divorced instead of being mated...
...Wall Street's alltime favorite glamour issues, Polaroid Corp. stock has been looking remarkably bedraggled lately. In May 1972 the price hit 149½, as optimism spread about the supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing color camera that Chairman Edwin H. Land had dramatically demonstrated to shareholders a month earlier at the annual meeting. The stock then rode a roller coaster (see chart) as great expectations about the camera alternated with apprehension about sales and technical difficulties. But in the past year or so, the lows have been getting steadily lower. Two weeks ago, negative brokerage-house reports knocked almost...
...contrived or false." They have drawn no such conclusion yet, she said, even though the oil embargo touched off a series of far-reaching social effects. Americans, suddenly deprived of gasoline, were also short of the "security blanket" provided by the auto and all the "freedom, status and glamour" that it represents. During the embargo, Keller said, police records show that there were more "violent family encounters as people spent more time involuntarily at home...
...first man to run in the marathon, Pheidippides, paid for it with his life. The marathon is that type of race--none of the quick glamour of the sprints, nor the intense excitement of the pole vault or the high jump--instead only 26 miles and 385 yards to cover in a finite amount of time, and it means, inevitably, pain...
JACQUES CHABAN-DELMAS, 59, is a former general in the French Resistance whose easy charm and dashing self-confidence have injected a Kennedyesque touch of glamour into Gaullist politics. Mayor of Bordeaux since 1947, Chaban - the Resistance code name that he formally adopted after the war - is also a former Premier. The perfect Gaullist? Not quite. For one thing, Chaban advocates widespread reform ("the new society," he calls it), ranging from governmental decentralization to increased social security benefits - policies that are anathema to some Gaullist fundamentalists who want to hold down government spending. Moreover, his reputation is still clouded...