Word: glamourizer
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...actresses had invested theatrical glamour with such elegance and intelligence as Jessica Tandy. So when she appeared at the ceremony with her husband Hume Cronyn to accept the first-ever Tonys for Lifetime Achievement, a hush fell on the heart of Broadway. Most of those in attendance knew that for five years Tandy had been battling ovarian cancer. Most other viewers would realize that the actress, who had turned 85 five days earlier, was in physical distress. That made her patrician poise a brave smile in the face of death. A lady never admits to agony. And Tandy...
...episodic Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life. For them, romantic yearning is like an image of lovers on a drive-in movie screen: huge and fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel, but it has a kind of perverse Hollywood glamour. When the camera holds on the gorgeous, thoughtful faces of Marlo Marron and Salma Hayek, beauty becomes truth -- the repository of hope and despair...
...Howard Chua-Eoan: "It's tempting to call this a straightforward story of a man who couldn't handle fame, but in the end, it was a lot sadder and more complicated than that." Observes MacLeod, who worked with Carter in Mozambique in July: "Ambition and a search for glamour and excitement were clearly part of Carter's makeup. But to go into that kind of danger over and over again requires a strong sense of mission or idealism...
Poaching, defined by federal law as the hunting of protected animals or wildlife for a payment of more than $350, has some glamour in its past. Back in Sherwood Forest, taking the King's deer was a capital offense. Today illegal hunters come from all walks: studies identified many of the waterfowl poachers in Wisconsin as white-collar executives, while Missouri's deer poachers are largely unemployed workers. Some claim to be modern-day Robin Hoods, engaged in libertarian protest against Big Government. This amuses the rangers. The poachers' major motivation, says Grosz, is "ego and greed...
Sunday the Scooter will be in Cooperstown, to be honored along with the late manager Leo Durocher and Phillie fireballer Steve Carlton. They will join the 216 players, managers, umpires, executives and Negro League stars elected to the Hall of Fame since 1936. In its august glamour, this citation is a combination Nobel Prize for phys ed and Palm Springs retirement home. Rizzuto will surely feel he belongs there. But does...