Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinn Syndrome, where Jane Fonda played an aggressive reporter investigating a neat melt-down at a nuclear reactor. Rather this film goes behind the scenes of life at a nuclear plant and subtly probes the intricacies concerning the operation and life of its employees. This film has no glamour, nor does it gloss over related event; the scene in which Silkwood's home is decontaminated for radiation poisoning is horrifying, and we really believe Silkwood's utter helplessness and revulsion at the destruction...
...problem requires coming to terms with motivations, the forces that drive individuals to become journalists and the attitudes they take when pursuing a story. Reporters have sometimes lost sight of the fundamental truth that their job is to provide a service to the community rather than to seek the glamour and glory that now often seem to draw people into the craft. News organizations are trying in a variety of ways to make themselves more self-critical and more accessible to the public and to attune their reporters to asking themselves, "Is this fair?" rather than, "Will this make Page...
...unnamed sources. At best, reporters may subject themselves to manipulation by a person who passes on information for his own motives; at worst, readers suspect that the anonymous source may not exist. In some cases, reporters seem to feel that using a "deep throat" lends a touch of glamour-a signal that they are in the know. Relying on unnamed sources is often necessary. Most major publications, including TIME, get background information at official briefings or through interviews of behind-the-scenes participants. In such cases, the source justifiably insists on anonymity. "The alternative...
...York retrospective revels in glamour and luxury...
...when his couture values were threatened, Saint Laurent will probably respond with fiendish flare. If he does not, the reason may be that he is content to reaffirm those values quietly through his designs. One emerges from this retrospective sensing that this is a defiant stronghold of luxury and glamour. As Saint Laurent writes in an essay for the museum's catalogue: "I believe that the couture must be preserved at all costs and the term, like a title, protected from debasement." -By Martha Duffy