Word: glamourizer
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...victory 2.5 sec. ahead of Mario Andretti. A sometime magazine model and former New York City taxi driver, Sullivan, 35, popped up in Manhattan for a post-Indy lap in a cab. He complains that his go-go playboy image is blown out of proportion. "Everyone talks about the glamour life of racing," he says. "I play hard, but I work hard too." It's just that he does it all at around 200 m.p.h...
Comdex, the huge trade show at which personal computer makers display their wares to dealers, has always been a high-spirited affair overflowing with hype and hoopla worthy of a glamorous growth industry. But at last week's extravaganza in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, the glamour was tempered by a touch of gloom. Attendance was disappointing, most of the new products were unexciting, and exhibitors were hard pressed to drum up enthusiasm. Even the shapely brunet in a bright-red leotard who was posted in front of the NEC Corp. booth did not attract a crowd. Summed...
...Cheyenne Mountain to the southwest, shielded behind 25-ton doors, is the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Notes retired General James E. Hill, president of the local Chamber of Commerce and former commander of NORAD: "It's not like all of a sudden we're a new glamour girl." Military activity currently provides 30,000 of the city's 187,000 jobs and about a third of the local economy. Some 12,500 retired military personnel have been drawn to the city by its mild climate (year-round golf), recreational opportunities in the Rocky Mountains and well-stocked...
...paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...
...monthly series, in its Saturday Night Live slot May 11. Three videocassettes, including one on the Hulkster, are scheduled to hit the stores next month. There are Hulk Hogan action dolls, T shirts and sweatbands. Propelled by Hogan and Lauper, who last year brought her rock-'em sock-'em glamour to the "sport," wrestling has moved from the regional sideshows of trash sports to the national...