Word: glamourizer
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...glamour gluttons of Beverly Hills, whose excursions into the technology of beauty have popularized such treatments as acid peels, sandpapering and surgical nips, are pushing a new aid to the perfect face. It is Preparation H, the widely advertised ointment sold over the counter to shrink hemorrhoids (painfully enlarged veins in the anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs...
...suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe with a sad history--a lot of Red Sox clubs winning hearts and losing still; heros now dead or in the insurance business. Fenway is outmoded and wonderful, decaying like baseball itself is decaying: slowly shedding off its crowds, its glamour, and its primacy in American life...
Recent Favorites. For the most part, the institutions have concentrated their buying on blue chips like IBM (up 25% since the start of the year), such glamour stocks as Fairchild Camera (up more than 257%) and Hewlitt-Packard (up 94%), and natural resource stocks, including domestic oil and, paper companies. Other recent favorites among the pros: Federated Department Stores, Sears and other retail chains that stand to benefit from an upsurge in consumer spending as inflation abates, purchasing power increases and the recovery gains momentum. Lately many mutual and pension fund managers have been looking kindly on new stock issues...
...gushily sentimental, fatuous, vulgar, idiotic, by advocating dressing up in colonial attire, getting sloppy guzzling old colonial grog in reconstructed 1776-style inns, rapturizing over the usual glamour figures and their myths. Even Jefferson on your cover would blush in his reluctance to be so glamorized...
Where does he go from here? King recognizes that once Ali retires or loses, much of the million-dollar glamour of boxing will fade. To avoid fading with it, he is expanding into producing records, representing pro athletes and making movies. With financial backing from Arab contacts, he has even made a bid to buy Madison Square Garden. "One day I will realize I can't make every deal. That day," he intones, "has not come...