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Word: glamourizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...encourages in accented English, sniffing up a bit of his pure product. "It's the flow of the apocalypse, man. You're king for a moment or even two. And you can be that again and again." Cocaine, sent off to the States to make money, has acquired American glamour, and come back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

HOSPITALIZED. Gloria Swanson, 84, legendary film star (Sunset Boulevard) who credits her longevity and ageless glamour to a diet of spring water and vegetables; for an undisclosed illness; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 4, 1983 | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...heyday of the average guy," says Joel Thurm, head of talent for NBC. "The country was prosperous. People were relatively satisfied with their lives and were able to laugh at themselves a little more. Now we're looking for heroes again. We want fantasy and glamour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: In Hollywood, the Year of the Hunk | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...hunk, chiefly responsible for the return to glamour is Tom Selleck, the 6-ft. 4-in., 200-lb. star of CBS's Magnum, P. I., which premiered in 1980. A genial shoot-'em-up, Magnum is set in Hawaii, a location that allows Selleck, 38, to romp on the beach and show off his grizzly-bear chest to the camera with once-a-week regularity. No. 2 in the latest Nielsen ratings, the show has apparently propelled Selleck to movie stardom as well. His first feature film, High Road to China, displaced Tootsie as the box-office leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: In Hollywood, the Year of the Hunk | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...Jerome-all included in the exhibition-should not be exposed to the risks of travel, particularly for a show that has no scholarly purpose. But the Vatican does what it wants to do. It was determined to have an Event. If ever an exhibition was passively dedicated to the glamour of organized religion, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Culture in the Papal Manner | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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