Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glamour entries were not the only ones in trouble. Beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the "roaring forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself...
...Died. Arline Judge, 61, Hollywood glamour girl of the 1930s and '40s (One in a Million, Lookin' for Trouble), who had almost as many marriages as movies to her credit; of an apparent stroke; in West Hollywood. Among Judge's seven husbands were Film Director Wesley Ruggles, Tin Millionaire Dan Topping, and later his brother...
...time college sports crowding the calendar, what is Florida's biggest spectator sport? Answer: Dog racing. The turnstiles spin merrily year-round at one or more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around an oval of either five-sixteenths or three-eighths of a mile...
...ignite our lascivious fantasies, wheras Ferreri's party-makers have only our pity, and our disgust. In porn, and in "advanced" movies of the sixties such as "La Dolce Vita," say, or "L'Avventura," decadence and dissipation are chic, inviting; the houseparty in "The Grande Bouffe" is entirely without glamour. You'll remember in "La Dolce Vita" the character of Paola the Innocent who represents the possibility of a higher and finer life than the one Marcello slips into. Here, Marcello has no options--he's sunk, irretrievably, in a swamp of self-indulgence...
Manufacturers believe that inflation makes a bit of glamour at moderate prices attractive. "What does the working girl do when she can't afford to spend money for regular clothes?" asks Ronnie Gross, president of a group of sportswear firms that includes Quips, Questions and Quotations. He answers himself: "She can either buy a lot of cheap, imitation designer clothes that don't fool anybody. Or she can go kicky, buy a flashy shirt, and say it is something for a giggle...