Word: glamourizer
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...very clear to me that the work ethic is suffering from a glamour gap. As the occupational glamour index rises and falls at the public's whim, certain jobs go begging while others are coveted...
Stocks of companies with long records of rapid profit growth sell at relatively high ratios, for example, 35 for IBM and 50 for Xerox. P/E ratios are high in such glamour industries as photography, cosmetics and soft drinks. Conversely, shares of companies in cyclical industries?in which profits fluctuate widely?usually sell at a low multiple because buyers must put up with considerable uncertainty about the future. In the auto industry, Ford sells at a humble nine times earnings, and even mighty GM commands a P/E of only 11. Other industries in which ratios are low include steel and textiles...
...elect an armadillo? First, you always refer to him as "The President." It helps if you send him off to China to give him a little glamour, so that people will say, "He may be an armadillo, but look at what he's managed to do." But most important, you never apologize for anything, and you assume that since most voters secretly believe that they are dull, they will welcome a candidate who is dull and proud...
Children of Paradise is a great film (certainly my favorite), and more worth seeing than anything else around. The characters are both attractively larger- than-life and full of basic human traumas, and they move with point through the rich decay and underworld glamour of Louis-Philippe's Paris. The concept of the film is daringly poetic for film narrative (the characters' developments are seen largely through their own conscious artistic achievements), but fully achieved. It is a brilliantly acted and mimed film about great mimes and actors who really lived and performed in and around the Boulevard of Crime...
George was already a handsome and promising catch. In his sophomore year at Dakota Wesleyan, the college he attended along with the twins, he was dubbed "glamour boy" by the yearbook editors. George and Eleanor nursed their courtship along over sodas at the Tiger's Lair in the basement of the main hall. George remembers that things really got serious when both he and Eleanor tied for top grades on TIME'S annual current-events quiz. "The professor gave us the test," recalls McGovern. "We both got a 98 out of a possible score of 100. It kind...