Word: glamourizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glamour Magazine is looking for a few good women, ten to be exact. The winners of the magazine's "1982 Top Ten College Women Competition" will be selected "on the basis of their solid records of achievement in academic studies and/or their involvement in personal, campus, or community activities," professes a press release sent to college newspaper editors...
Winners receive $1000 in cash and an appearance in the magazine's college issue next August; applications, due by December 15, should be sent to Glamour, Conde Nast Building, 350 Madison Ave., New York City...
...dominated by scare tactics, Evans held to an affirmative theme. He committed $400,000 of his own money and recruited Steve Karmen, composer of the / Love New York theme, to donate the jingle. Get High on Yourself would ask "drug-free American heroes" to talk about the pleasure, and glamour, of life on a natural high. Just as important, during the 6-hr, taping of the commercials, the "heroes" would mingle with a racial rainbow of youngsters...
...1970s, the baby-boom children were "singles," the glamour class of childless sybarites that had responsibilities to no one other than themselves. A decade later, they are dropping anchor. Harvard Demographer George Masnick foresees them aspiring "to put down roots, to plant gardens, to rake the leaves." Already, says he, "young men and women are moving to the country in droves, trying to get away from the singles bars, the single apartment complexes...
...been a long time since Hollywood Boulevard glittered with the perfervid glamour of the '20s. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams tarnished slowly for decades, declining by the late '60s and early '70s to the same sleazy fate as its East Coast counterpart, Times Square. Cleanup efforts partly succeeded, and now, on weekdays, some stretches feel like the downtown of a small city. But, says Police Sergeant Bob Rebhan, "I wouldn't go up Hollywood Boulevard on a weekend night without being armed...