Word: glamourized
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...thinking she has at last found a grand passion), it is too banal to awaken much emotion. Nor is there any point in using these figures from a remote society for social criticism. No, Radford has done the right thing with his material by observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing for years, a good-bad movie. It will shock some of the innocent, titillate others and amuse the sophisticated, who will not be wrong if they detect a certain gleam -- probably...
...Federal Government. Gone are most of the Woodys, who catered to a passenger's every whim. Gone too are the silver coffeepots, the mahogany walls and chandeliers in the dining cars, and the nurses on board who would look after infants so that Mother could rest. The glamour trains of the early 20th century, the ones that ferried tycoons cross-country, stopping for fresh strawberries along the way, could not compete with the airlines or the new federal highway system. By the end, when Amtrak had to step in, service had deteriorated out of existence...
Black's speech broke a long truce between newspapers and television, which find themselves unhappily linked in the public mind as "the media." They are at best wary colleagues: one gets all the glamour and pay, while the other does most of the grunt work. Last month the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., brought the two sides together to discuss press credibility. There were a few sharp words. Miffed at the cracks about TV entertainment, Don Hewitt, producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, wondered about "all that junk"--advice columns, features, horoscopes--in newspapers. Eugene Patterson...
Vieira is just one of a handful of successful journalists who have recently flouted their images as serious professional women by flaunting their glamour and sex appeal. NBC's Maria Shriver, decked out in a strapless evening gown, dallied mischievously with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Vanity Fair shortly before their April 1986 wedding; this month the 32-year-old TV reporter's make-up routine is featured in a stunning photo sequence in Harper's Bazaar. And CBS Superstar Diane Sawyer, 42, radiated Hollywood-star presence in a set of sultry photographs in last September's Vanity Fair...
...Meredith Vieira joins the growing band of female TV journalists who flout the old rules by flaunting their glamour and sex appeal...