Word: glamourizer
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...young sentries in their scarlet tunics and high black bearskins were symbols of imperial glory: Englishmen and foreigners alike respectfully held their tongues and kept their distance. But after World War II was won with a minimum of pomp and circumstance, and the blitz took away war's glamour, the solemn and expressionless sentries marching mechanically 25 paces this way and 25 paces that no longer seemed to inspire the same old respect. At least not to tourists, especially Americans...
...vegetable slicer called Schneidboy, sales of the gadget soared to 1,500,000. Author of three cookbooks, Wrilmenrod is swamped with offers for testimonials, but insists he is very choosy. "Not even for 100,000 marks would I endorse a recipe using margarine." That, Clemens feels, would destroy the glamour of his show for the audience, whom he addresses as "Verehrte Fein-schmeckergemeinde" (Honorable Community of Gourmets...
...Wall Street, Highway 128, the road of ideas, has become a road of enchanting mystery, glamour-and the source of quick profits. Many a Wall Street analyst periodically tours the highway, on the hunt for hot new companies. Few investors can understand what many of the companies make. But their eager bidding to get in on the ground floor has sent the prices of some stocks soaring a hundredfold-and more-in the last few years...
Last week Nehru lost more glamour by flying down to the Red-run state of Kerala, staying three days, and flying back to New Delhi without accomplishing much. Kerala's Red government has been battling a united front of local Socialist, Moslem and Congress parties who are seeking to bring it down with the "direct action" of Gandhi-style nonviolent demonstrations (TIME, June 29). The Reds have fought back by arresting 15,000 people, jamming 4,180 into jails...
...complete women." Inevitably, certain new Hollywood clichés have developed. Where it was preferable for yesterday's star to have been discovered at a soda fountain, it is better for today's model to have been found at the Actors' Studio. Where yesterday's glamour girl was expected to bathe in goat's milk, today's must dig Dostoevsky, or at least say she does. The sex goddess is a foreigner now-named Brigitte or Sophia-and Hollywood women seem to come in somewhat subtler shapes. And, at one time or another, they...