Word: glamourizer
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Similarly, students were given high marks for expressing a desire to have a glamorous career, like a rock or sports star. Typically, adolescent girls scored lower in this area then did boys, a trend that the AAUW labeled a "glamour gap." Sommers rightly renames this a "maturity gap." Since girls mature faster than boys, the increase in the "glamour gap" during the adolescent years should be attributed to the fact that the more mature and sensible girls have more realistic goals than their less mature male classmates...
Sheehan's darkened plate-glass windows are unassuming, overshadowed by the ready-to-wear glamour of Filene's and Jordan Marsh. Unlike the well-heeled habitues of Downtown Crossing, the store's customers are a diverse assortment of Boston's most pious population...
When she first joined ECHO, an East Coast electronic community, Marcia Bowe dubbed herself ``Miss Outer Buro 1991,'' a handle that facetiously implied beauty queen-like poise, glamour, congeniality. And soon enough, Bowe was enjoying the adulation of fellow ``ECHOids'' who posted messages praising her wit, candor and smarts. Such celebrity was heady stuff for Bowe, a free-lance writer who describes herself in real life as shy and wary of emotional encounters. ``I became addicted to this constant stream of approval,'' she says. ``It was like a big co-dependency machine.'' As Bowe began spending up to 100 hours...
...also understand why a large number of college athletes, who grew up in underprivileged neighborhoods, would gladly jump at the chance for financial security, along with the glamour and fast living of professional sports. I'd likely do the same myself, if I were in their shoes...
...father, the butcher, played double bass in a jazz band and produced herb beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery in the artifacts of Grandma's parlor. Later he would realize he had a great subject in this gray world. It begged for a wit that evokes nostalgia and distress, and Bennett became its not-quite-lyric poet: the bardof the drab...