Word: glamourizer
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...also been looped and twisted into a tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself, and 2) when it comes to acting, Miss Calvet, for all her diamantine Gallic glamour, is only a rhinestone in the rough...
...four days in Washington's Federal Court, hammy little Attorney Archie Palmer had led his client, Judith Coplon, through her intricate story. "Judy," he concluded lugubriously, "you started with the glamour of your job and ended with the dirt and degradation of a trial." Then, turning a contemptuous look on the Government lawyers, Archie announced: "Your witness, Mr. Kelley...
...Bother!" Princess Margaret was not born a king's daughter, but even the weather on the night of Aug. 21, 1930 seemed to conspire with a sentimental people to give her birth a special glamour. A howling wind whistled around her grandparents' home, gloomy old Castle Glamis (rhymes with palms), where Shakespeare's Macbeth had long since murdered sleep and Duncan. Lightning flashed and the rain beat down. The announcement of the first royal child to be born north of the Tweed since 1601 was greeted by an ear-splitting squeal of bagpipes...
...worn, plump, pallid figures never looked posed; they were painted as Bishop had first sketched them, in the park or subway or on the street, licking ice-cream cones, reading newspapers, chatting on park benches. There was no glamour in Bishop's handling of them, and no heavy realism either. Her models might be too rumpled and dispirited for Vogue magazine, but they shared a dreamlike solemnity and detachment that is seldom found on the street...
...edited Glamour for almost two years, then did a stint on Liberty and Look before she joined Seventeen, which her old friend Helen Valentine was running. Since then Mrs. Thompson has commuted to Manhattan every day with her adman husband, John Beaton (twice-married Alice Thompson uses her first husband's name in business) from their ten-room farmhouse in Fairfield, Conn. At home, Mrs. Thompson does much of her work and at home she often finds out exactly what her readers want to hear about. Her daughter, Judy, is just...