Word: glamourizer
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Starker feels that "the golden age of the cello is upon us." Lacking the glamour or flashy attraction of the piano and violin, the cello has been a neglected child in the family of strings. France's Jean Louis Duport revolutionized playing techniques in the late 1700s, an achievement that prompted Voltaire to exclaim: "A miracle! An ox has been changed into a nightingale...
...Sweat. Heifetz lives alone; he has been twice divorced. He prefers small dinners with close friends to the glamour bashes, though his acquaintance among the stars has always been extensive, and when he zips around, he does his zipping in a grey Bentley. Piatigorsky's wife Jacqueline, a daughter of the late Baron Edouard de Rothschild, is a busy painter, sometime bassoon player, and alltime chess addict who ranks as one of the top ten women players in the U.S. Gregor counters with writing (he has written an autobiography), oceanography and herpetology ("Snakes are so misunderstood...
Targeting Missiles. That is the only joke on the Street about Control Data, whose fast growth and aggressive stance have made it a favorite glamour stock. Last month the firm made a 3-for-2 stock split, the second in its seven-year history, and announced that new orders for June, the latest month calculated, reached a record $61 million. Needing space for its lusty growth, which boosted sales to $100 million last year, Control Data last week settled into a new three-building headquarters in suburban Minneapolis, which replaces the converted paper warehouse in which it has operated since...
Rats & Roaches. The jungle is, above all, inexorably and everlastingly dreary. There is no fun, no glamour here. There is little excitement even in the violence and sin. There are, of course, a few clearings. In the handsome residences up on Sugar Hill and the comfortable Riverton Apartments along the Harlem River, the black bourgeoisie live much as their middle-class white counterparts do. Dozens of such project apartment buildings rise above Harlem's slums like so many monoliths, changing the section's skyline as drastically as they have changed lower Manhattan...
Snead, who would rather catch a marlin than lick Ben Hogan, says that going after blacks is "like hunting elephants." Another expert big game fisherman, S. Kip Farrington Jr., calls the black "the glamour boy of all fishes-and the most difficult to catch." Farrington should know: he once held the world record (a 1,135-pounder), and he has also spent 94 consecutive fishing days without boating a single marlin...