Word: glamourizer
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Whatever its material from burlap to brocade, a hostess gown assures the lady of the house comfort, glamour, and a kind of one-upmanship on her guests. After a day over the old hot stove, she can slip quickly and ungirdled into the easy camouflage of full-length draperies. And while her guests have had to settle for party dresses of unspectacular street length (the better to get in and out of cabs or family cars), they are sure to find their basic blacks outshone by the lady in skirts who rustles out from the kitchen with...
...very far from the whirlwind glamour of Senatorial and gubernatorial races, five men and a woman have been battling all fall to represent Cambridge's middle district (Harvard Sq. and half of Central Square) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
Moving Closer. Still, there was more to Brezhnev's visit than a glamour competition. Ever since Tito's break with the Cominform in 1948, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have been the touchstone for Moscow's relations with the world's other Communist parties. While Stalin lived, satellite leaders were ruthlessly purged if they were suspected of sympathizing with Tito's nationalistic ideas. Under Khrushchev's more flexible policy, which allows other Communist rulers greater domestic independence but still preserves the political supremacy of the Soviet Union. Tito has been steadily wooed closer to the Kremlin...
...upon a Stalinist time, Masha the Machinist was supposed to get maximum uplift just by doing her bit for the Five-Year Plan. Her unharnessed figure, unrouged cheeks and unwaved hair were the model for Soviet womanhood. Feminine adornments were considered decadent. But under Nikita Khrushchev's rule, glamour has become one of the Marxist virtues; the party line has caught up with the hemline. At a Moscow fashion show this summer, 9,000 people a day enviously ogled the sleek styles that so far only the mannequins were wearing. The counters of GUM, Moscow's government department...
While still in high school, the sisters started interviewing movie stars for community papers. They got onto the glamour gimmick when they visited their first movie studio. The heat caused their hastily made eyebrows to run (they have been sprucing up with cosmetics since pubescence), and the makeup director generously lectured them on the proper use of eyebrow pencil. "Were we embarrassed!" recalls Reba, re-creating her blush. But next day they wrote up the incident in their column and were deluged with letters asking for more tips...