Word: glamourizer
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Unfortunately, I never finished high school, because my parents sent me to a private school at the age of 14. This severe handicap in my preparation for life has often plagued-me. Friends' fond reminiscences of sock-hops and eider sales, of the gaiety and glamour of high school life, set aching in me a vast void that seemed destined never to be filled...
...mused Molly Tweedy Bloom in her celebrated life-affirming soliloquy, which closes James Joyce's Ulysses. Probably the most famous citizen of Gibraltar, fictional or otherwise, Molly today would find the free and easy ways and the regimental glamour of her hot-blooded youth in the 1890s to be vastly changed. On the Spanish side, in the little border towns of La Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment...
...elemental or elegant, warm or astringent-in fact, anything she chooses," says Orson Welles. England's Tony Richardson calls her "more informed, committed and passionate" than any actress he knows: "She is totally involved in the seriousness and importance of movies as distinct from the money and glamour." India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) and Hollywood's Carl Foreman (The Victors) both say she is peerless in films today. And François Truffaut, whose Jules and Jim caught much of her chameleonic range, says: "She has all the qualities one expects in a woman, plus...
Rome was something else again, and the "else" in translation read "glamour." From Forquet's flowing saris to De Barentzen's dirndl-skirted rain dress to Lancetti's denim and organdy evening gown, elegance was clearly the theme of the day. And of the night, too. thanks to Top Designer Princess Irene Galitzine, whose patio pajamas (patterned in mauve and pea-green poppies) and open-front, open-back nightgowns (layer-wrapped to conceal seams) stopped the show in Rome, but will only start it somewhere else...
Richard Burton has long insisted that he would rather be a writer than an actor. Last summer, Condé Nast's Glamour magazine sent him a timid feeler asking if he might like to write a story for the Christmas issue. The idea appealed to Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very...