Word: glamourizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With the glamour of the New Journalism came the star system. There is irony in the fact that the Pulitzer hoax happened to those Watergate participants whose legitimate achievements became overmythologized, and whose fabled reputations and rewards drew a whole new generation of journalists who had a different perspective about their craft. Cooke saw stars, and was in too big a hurry to join the constellation...
...dean is often thankless: the only glamour is in the title. While most professors publich articles and acquire expertise in important areas of the legal profession, the dean must devote his time almost exclusively to administrative duties. He is ultimately responsible: if something goes wrong. it is his fault...
...left the island gasping. Attending a benefit recital at the Goldsmiths' Hall -close to St. Paul's Cathedral, where the royal couple will be married July 29-the Queen-to-be stepped out in a strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour not associated with Britain's ruling ladies for generations. (But certainly in the tradition of England's first Princess of Wales, the fair wife of Edward, the Black Prince. Holding forth in English-ruled Bordeaux in the 1360s, the Princess scandalized a local lord with her "luxurious trimmings...
...couple's "extravagant high-society gowns often go well past the borderline of the erotic . . . Their rapid fame has been based largely on exotic, intricately decorated, grand evening gowns which blend the pre-Raphaelite and Nell Gwynne styles. Demand for their work, which they advertise as 'bringing glamour back to evening clothes,' has grown as jet-set and upper-class balls have become more nostalgically lavish in times of general gloom." British commentators noted happily that Di seems determined to project a style that is in keeping with her own personality rather than that of a waxwork...
Such a no-frills operation is unusual in the airline industry, which normally decorates its offices with the glamour it sells with its nights. But that has helped make Delta the highest-flying airline in the sky. Last year total passenger traffic in the U.S. dropped by more than 5%, the biggest decline since the beginning of successful air service in the 1920s, and the airlines as a whole lost about $300 million. Yet Delta recorded a 1980 profit of $130.5 million. In fact, the company now has a record of 33 consecutive years of operating at a profit. Says...