Word: glamourizer
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...being ironic. But irony is intervention, between perceiver and the perceived, and Warhol does not intervene in that way. In reality, Marilyn and Liz, with their peacock masks of off-register color, seem rather to be the products of wistful affection. They reflect the same gee-whiz obsession with glamour and stardom that led Warhol to create the legendary, shifting entourage of drag queens, raucous juvenile models and human parrot fish who, entering a room in a cloud of sequins and patchouli, take the strain of flamboyancy off the Master's back. Warhol's id vanishes behind...
...institution awaiting the wrecking ball. The other is marriage. Sally and her glib, skirt-chasing husband Buddy (Gene Nelson) have become pathetic caricatures of the Andy Hardy couple they once were?naivete swallowed by facts. Phyllis and her acrid WASP's-nest of a husband Ben (John McMartin) are glamour gone dry, a wasteland with wedding rings...
Leading last week's broad advance were stocks of companies in retailing, television, oil, tobacco and electronics. High technology securities, especially those of the computer manufacturers, did well. Many of the blue chip and reliable glamour stocks have already been swept up in the sharp recovery and are no longer bargains. Thus, investors are now moving into less stable issues; potentially dangerous speculation is on the rise. Small investors continue to shy away from the market, and institutions remain by far the big buyers. They are pouring more of their daily cash inflow into the market than...
Disastrous Union. Most of the princess's 36 years have been spent in the pursuit of beauty. But then, as she explains, "glamour can begin only when all the groundwork has been laid." For Luciana, the groundwork came early in adolescence, when "all legs and big feet, thick at the waist and thick in the nose," she was taken in hand by her half brother, Rodolfo Crespi (married to Consuelo Crespi of the best-dressed set). Rudi pushed lipstick, Consuelo set aside some best dresses, and at 18, Luciana was shuttled from Rome to London to have her nose...
...interested in kicks than cures, have proved less cooperative. "Methadone did the trick," explained a 20-year-old who skipped the counseling at an Illinois treatment center. "The reason I didn't stay on it was that I missed the excitement of using dope. I missed all the glamour of hustling and beating on people...