Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since supporters pushed for George Washington to take a permanent political position in the uncertain years after the Revolution, the U.S. has had a love-hate relationship with the idea of monarchy. We love the glamour, but we hate the despotism and hereditary privilege that the same monarchy seems to symbolize. However, sometimes I wistfully wonder, what if? Would it have been better for George Washington to have taken the crown of the U.S., and would that have actually supported the U.S.'s need for a democratic government...
Yesterday, we made an attempt to enter the restricted world of glamour. Dartboard journeyed into Boston to visit with our stylist for our periodic haircut. Dartboard was rather excited. It's a win-win situation--we always leave looking better than when we came in. We don't always leave feeling better though. The initial attempt to sell us a $40 anti-frizz treatment we brushed off as an attempt to sell us unnecessary services. The allusion to our youthfulness didn't ruffle our feathers. We took the remark about our stodginess in terms of hair style in stride...
...really act? This is an oft debated question to which, as with that of nature vs. nurture, it is hard to give a definitive answer. Despite a career forged in nepotism--90210 is dad's show--Spelling has endured, projecting an odd combination of goofy sincerity and trashy glamour that has also carried a string of popular movies-of-the-week. Is this skill? Or her luck in having an arresting face, pretty yet shovel-like (she cops only to a nose job)? Whatever one thinks of such fare as Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?, her longevity...
...Heinrich (Pitt), glamour boy of an empire mad for mountain climbing, joins an expedition to scale Nanga Parbat in eastern India. The troupe is led by Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), but Heinrich will say sir to no man. He pays no attention to his own severe pain, little more to the safety of his comrades. Failing to reach the summit, they are taken as prisoners of war by His Majesty's Government in India. Four times Heinrich tries to escape; each time security is increased. When Peter determines to get out, Heinrich thumbs a ride on the jail break...
...disappointed that Mother Teresa was not on your cover. Her beauty, character and spirit leave glamour and the royals in the shadows. CAROLYN MANN Mechanicsburg...