Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from most fashion-magazine covers, replaced by movie starlets. She's all but gone from top advertising campaigns, beaten out by anonymous, awkward-looking teenagers. She has virtually disappeared from runways, her asking price too dear. Even rock stars don't seem eager to date her anymore. A little glamour has left the world. And so the world mourns, its makeup runny from tears...
...cast of O, the beautifully buoyant Cirque du Soleil water extravaganza at the Bellagio, wore circus motley: urchin's togs, ballerina gowns, penguin suits and the odd clown nose. Last week's opening-night audience, though, was outfitted in formal evening wear--1,800 exponents of money and glamour. It was just the sort of crowd Steve Wynn would like to see at his new hotel every night. So would the other high-rolling master builders in this high-desert fantasyland. Like an aging chorine who learns a little French and buys a Chanel frock in hopes of attracting...
This time Las Vegas is going upmarket, trading showgirl pasties for showy Picassos, $3.99 buffets for $20 entrees at Wolfgang Puck's and neon glitz for European glamour. Soon you will be able to ride a gondola through Venice, dine atop a 50-story Eiffel Tower and surf in the ocean. And you'll be happy to pay up for it, or there will be some very unhappy investors. "The driving feature of Vegas will always be gambling, but the days of giving away rooms to gamblers are over," says Stephen Bollenbach, CEO of Hilton, which is building...
McInerney's taste has also, amazingly, remained focused on the dazzle of glamour. This is a guy who's been married to a model and has lived with two others, and it still isn't out of his system. "I think for the moment I've exhausted my observations of it," he admits. "But the day I overcome my spectator's interest in beauty, I think I'd better take my pulse...
...solar system has a glamour world, Jupiter--with its brilliant colors, vast size and fruit fly-like swarm of 16 moons--has always been it. The planet appeared more elegant still in 1979, when the Voyager space probes discovered that it is circled by a fine set of nested rings...