Word: glamourizer
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...that?" asked one bored spectator. Answered another: "Only Senator Javits." With all the glamour around, there was no reason for a mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical of the life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn...
Fresh Approach. Businessmen have discovered that leisure-market acquisitions can be every bit as profitable as companies in glamour industries. Jensen Marine, a fast-growing West Coast boatbuilder bought nearly two years ago by Bangor Punta, a Maine conglomerate, last year earned its new owner profits far in excess of the industry average (4% after taxes) on its $6,000,000 in sales...
...matriarch of "Collinwood," the haunted manor that is the scene of the action. That role is filled by the show's top-billed star, former Film Actress Joan Bennett, 58, who says frankly: "You reach a certain age in Hollywood when there's a shortage of glamour roles...
...Berets have already been overly romanticized in song and book, including Robin Moore's novel, on which the movie is based. "That's a lot of crap," says Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Hassinger, deputy commander of the Special Forces in Viet Nam. "There's not much glamour in our outfit -just a lot of hard work." Well, not quite. There are only 2,600 Green Berets in Viet Nam, but they exercise control over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They...
Although it remarked favorably on her 35-26-36 measurements, her "dazzling" smile, "pretty" legs and "clear" skin, the London fashion magazine Nova nonetheless lamented last week that Britain's Queen Elizabeth II-at 42 -is "by no means a glamour girl." So Nova took the problem to the French for frank answers. "Pluck the eyebrows," ordered Carita of Paris. "Mold the cheekbones . . . The eyes must be emphasized ... A little light in the hair . . . Mouth toned down . . . Transparent makeup." While Courrèges decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane...