Word: glamourizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today, a magical fusion of dance tradition and Balanchine's revolution occurs. She may lack the technical wizardry of City Ballet's Kyra Nichols or Merrill Ashley, but she is the most musical of dancers, delightedly bathing in the score, modestly using her bewitching personal beauty to enhance the glamour of what is, in fact, a triumphant moment in ballet history...
Skeptics note that, unlike campaigning for abortion rights or fringe political causes, environmental activism offers no career risk. "It's a nonpartisan issue," says Heal the Bay co-chair Ellen Gilbert. "What's the other side -- a dirty ocean?" Others suspect that the glamour do-gooders will lose interest or be unable to give up gas-guzzling cars and private planes. Bonnie Reiss, executive director of ECO, disagrees: "This is a people's movement, and we're beginning with the wealthy and privileged people of Hollywood...
...environmental movement enlists a passel of Tinseltown do-gooders to spread the ecological word through movies, TV, songs and newsworthy glamour...
...Summer of '49 is much enhanced by the author's ruminations about the era. He captures both the glamour and the quaintness of the late '40s, when the corner bar, the movie palace and the ball park were the major entertainment centers. The new age of expansion clubs and megasalaries was coming on fast. Though TV was in the wings, radio ruled a fan's life. Teams still traveled by train and, in Halberstam's view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored...
...record buyers. It needs a conductor with fire in the belly like Bernstein; if Billy Martin can be hired by the Yankees five times, can't Lenny come back once? Los Angeles, where the orchestra plays second fiddle to the movies and the Lakers, needs a high-profile glamour boy willing, or indifferent enough, to share power with Fleischmann: Salonen, perhaps, or Rattle...