Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles County coroner's office said it would take two weeks to determine the cause of Hemingway's death at 41. But whatever killed her, she has already become another entry on the roster of celebrities whose lives began in a swirl of glamour and ended in relative obscurity and pain. Defined by her beauty and her family's celebrity, Hemingway struggled to establish an independent identity as her looks and fame faded. In her final days, says a friend, Gigi Gaston, "she was back on her feet, and she looked beautiful. But I felt she was incredibly lonely...
James Caan, as Kruger's mentor, ably reveals the cutthroat brutality that lies behind the merely serious face of top-secret government. Vanessa Williams, on the other hand, must play the thankless, Schwarzenegger equivalent of a "Bond girl," minus the glamour...
...swing--pounding out driving, rock-solid rhythms with her trio; when she soloed, she created patterns of brilliant, light-fingered notes that evoked Cole's easy, vibrant style. Audience appreciation for Krall always seems leavened with astonishment--as if it is difficult to believe that so much soulfulness and glamour can be in the same place at the same time...
First, the staff editorial ("Commencement Choice: Dr. Who?"). It is an insult to every scientist at Harvard to be told that the choice of Dr. Varmus is a "disappointment." As for "glamour," how many Harvard seniors from the class of 1995 had heard of Vaclav Havel prior to that Czech Republic President's selection as the Commencement Speaker for that year? No poll was conducted to my knowledge, but I'd venture a guess: not many. Seldom has such myopia been demonstrated by an entire staff (minus three) of supposedly intelligent journalists. This essay demonstrates a lack of education...
...plays a death-row inmate in Bruce Beresford's Last Dance. In vain would we tell her that the world has a surfeit of good actresses but damn few movie stars and that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance. Acting is easy, glamour is hard. But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama--but with a message--that, when Susan Hayward tried it in the 1958 I Want to Live...