Word: glamourized
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...reasons these events and figures attract so much attention is that they lend themselves to all sorts of gossipy and hand-wringing speculation. But this glee is so far from the heart and the truth of these occurrences. People like Walter Goodman focus so much on the "glamour" of the event that the agony of the alleged victim is completely passed over...
...groupies, and what do they want? Observers of the scene say they are usually of college age or slightly older. Mainly they seek money, attention and the glamour of associating with celebrated and highly visible "hard bodies." According to a 31-year-old who has had affairs with athletes in two sports, "for women, many of whom don't have meaningful work, the only way to identify themselves is to say whom they have slept with. A woman who sleeps around is called a whore. But a woman who sleeps with Magic Johnson is a woman who has slept with...
...basic problem with the resulting book is that, for all the drama in its central character's situation, there is not much in the woman herself. She comes across as drab, passive and emotionally blocked. Her best quality, stubborn persistence, does not lend itself to glamour or theatrics. Besides, she was not present -- victims rarely are -- for the key moments in solving the case and preparing for trial. Thus, in bringing the story back to her, McGinniss keeps having to disrupt its momentum...
...longer found in movie stars who dress down in blue jeans and prefer environmental preservation to nightclubbing. The top mannequins -- among them Cindy Crawford, Elaine Irwin, Karen Mulder and Claudia Schiffer -- always seem perfectly coiffed and coutured, manicured and made up. Says Jerome Bonnouvrier, head of the Paris-based Glamour agency: "Modeling has become the new Hollywood...
...Kerrey shouldn't be judged by his dining establishments. The salad might have lacked pizazz, but Kerrey does not. He has charisma. He has glamour. He's good looking. When "Terms of Endearment" was filmed in Lincoln, Debra Winger, uh, moved into the, uh, Governor's Mansion. Guess who was governor...