Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands gesticulating, expressions changing like neon signs. Her conversation is a Catherine wheel of intelligent, breathlessly unfinished sentences about a dozen topics from Watergate to cat breeding to the weaknesses in the Stanislavsky method of acting. She will not, however, go on talk shows: "I'm not into glamour. I don't want to sit there like a box of cornflakes...
...graduates, glamour fields include management consulting, land development, banking and finance. In those fields, M.B.A.s tend to start fairly high on the ladder, gain responsibility quickly and move ahead fast. But there is a decline of interest in that old M.B.A. watering hole, Wall Street, where hours are long and profits shortening. In fact, says Robert Flanagan, chief recruiter for Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. management consultants: "It's very tough to get people to consider coming to New York City for anything...
...suddenly the high-powered glamour and profits seem endangered on two scores...
Such disconnected nuances reveal a truth that formal history can hardly capture, and they are in absolute contrast to the craft of acting. In the Guinness film, Eva Braun was played as a glamour puss, vaguely resembling Dominique Sanda. The real version was otherwise: a giggling, curly blonde Aryan squaw, smooching with a rabbit, proudly doing calisthenics on the beach of the Konigssee, or coquettishly persuading the Scourge of History to screen Gone With the Wind just once again because she loves Clark Gable. Allowing for variations of costume and language, these domestic scenes could be happening today, anywhere from...
Hollywood, which experienced something of a motorcycle and Volkswagen phase a couple of years ago, is back to glamour cars with a vengeance. Last year 120 Rolls-Royces were sold in Beverly Hills alone. Polly Bergen traded in her new Mercedes for a one-of-a-kind 1957 Bentley convertible, while Dick Martin and Elvis Presley have bought $35,000 Stutz Blackhawks. Steve McQueen recently wanted a very special present for his friend Ali MacGraw-a limited-edition 1969 Mercedes 280-3 convertible. A dealer found one in St. Louis and had it flown to Los Angeles only to have...