Word: glamourized
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...successor brings a fresh dose of glamour to the usually staid book- publishing world: Evans and his wife Tina Brown, another transplanted Brit, who edits Vanity Fair magazine, are among Manhattan's most prominent and influential media couples. Evans also brings to the job an exuberant and aggressive style. At the London Sunday Times he established an investigative team that uncovered the Kim Philby spy scandal and exposed the dangers of thalidomide. After moving to the U.S. in 1984, he took over Atlantic Monthly press (his only previous book-publishing job) and later U.S. News and World Report. Since...
...Whatever glamour there is these days in organic chemistry -- the study of the complex, carbon-based molecules that are the basis of life -- adheres mostly to the genetic engineers, those futuristic scientists who turn living cells into tiny factories for drugs and other substances. But the fact is that most pharmaceutically useful compounds are made the old-fashioned way, by combining reagents in a laboratory flask. Last week the Royal Swedish Academy returned to the roots of the science. Elias James Corey, 62, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is an organic chemist's chemist, a master...
There is not much glamour in getting old. Not in America, and not in the eighties. You stop working, you go to Florida, and if you are like Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, you play golf, eat junk food, and try to hang onto your sexuality as long as you can. For the most part, you sit around and wait for your life to fall apart...
...review, but LaVern Baker (also heard on the Dick Tracy score) gets the same laughs and is, if anything, torchier. In other regards this celebration of blues song and tap dance is better than ever: the all-black cast has infused a newfound Harlem funk into the Busby Berkeleyesque glamour...
...Imelda has seen her former life of glamour, riches and power reduced to shards. Impassive and wan, her face puffy, she is a long way from the days when she was runner-up in the Miss Manila beauty contest, or danced cheek to cheek with President Lyndon Johnson, or took the microphone to croon for state visitors at the Malacanang Palace, or dazzled foreign capitals in her exotic Philippine gowns. Back then Imelda was a force to be reckoned with -- governor of the Manila district, Minister of Human Settlements. There was even talk that she might succeed her husband...