Word: glamourizer
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Many members of the audience said that Kennedy has come to symbolize an image of glamour, so that he’s more admired now for his inspiring, idealistic speeches than for specific policies...
...night, he surprises them once again when he invites a male prostitute to his guest bedroom. Flan and Ouisa soon discover that their guest is a con artist armed with a prep school student’s address book, although Paul steals nothing and seems more attracted to the glamour and sophistication of wealth than to its material pleasures. The play is based on the true story of David Hampton, a Boston man who schmoozed his way into the homes of the wealthy before dying of AIDS last July...
...Warriors isn't up there with Crouching Tiger and Hero. It meanders in places then rushes through a half-dozen climaxes, including one with weak visual effects (and copped from Raiders of the Lost Ark). But Zhao Fei's cinematography is ravishing, the actors bring heft and glamour to their roles, and the battle scenes have a clanging thrill to them. When the good guys and bad guys wage a group sword fight on horseback, you'll wonder why Hollywood ever thought it could get away with boring old guns...
Stolid and resolute, but noticeably more distant from the public than first ladies from years past, most notably Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan, Mrs. Bush seems to embody the cold, corporate feel of the Bush administration. The Clinton era of relative glitz and glamour, with frequent trips to Hollywood and European capitals, have been replaced with sojourns to that earthy ranch in Texas, and frequent trips to electoral battleground states such as Florida and Pennsylvania. Sexy controversies like sex scandals, lying about sex and allegations of sexual misconduct have been replaced by more sober controversies like corporate scandals, lying about...
...everyone has to pay through the nose for glamour shots, though—at least one first-year who wishes to remain unnamed had her studio shots done for free, one of the perks of being crowned her hometown’s Miss Chinatown...