Word: glamourizer
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...glamour. What a word. It is a word that conjures up images of a bygone era, a word that sends chills of fond nostalgia down the backs of wizened old ladies. It is a world that we have difficulty recreating simply because today, we confuse glamour with glitter. The Museum of Fine Arts’ (MFA) new exhibit The Look; Images of Glamour and Style transports the viewer back to a time when elegance was tantamount to perfection and subtlety was more important than show. The exhibit, which features the photography of George Hoynigen-Huene and Horst P. Horst...
...room of the exhibit is devoted to recreating the ambience of glamour. White love seats and vases full of lilies of the valley add character to the room. The music of Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Edith Piaf and several others is constantly playing in the background. Mannequins clad in authentic gowns show the viewer what evening dresses looked like in real life. The work of photographers such as Steichen, Man Ray, Beaton and Karsh give us an idea of what kinds of other photographic skills were being developed...
...look: Images of Glamour...
...English major and word-monger I was aghast when the my eyes skimmed over “Beauty and the Breast,” Glamour magazine’s October how-to which instructs women everywhere to “make their chests over” with an array of creams, acids and something called a YAG laser. Not only did the quick-witted style sergeants declare that open-down-to-there shirts are apparently the thing to wear, but they did so with some of the most offensive puns I have ever read. The word “best?...
...have enough money for the suggested three-step guide to a killer chest, so I’ll just have to improvise. The first thought that comes to mind is buying some of the creams and potions that regularly appear on the last few pages of every Glamour, but ordering a product featured fewer than two inches away from Ms. Cleo’s Tarot Card Reading is just too sketchy. In the still readable section of Glamour, there is an ad for the “all-natural” Bloussant that caught my eye. Miss...