Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marcia has done a lot for the part of a beauty pageant you don't really think about--past the beauty and the glamour and 'stuff," said Dana D. Dore '97 of Turner's public service work...
Though this film's Van Helsing (lank, loopy Peter Fonda) sleeps inside a grand piano, Nadja is a fairly close reading of the Stoker tale. What distinguishes it is its serenely mannerist glamour. Almereyda shot parts in glorious "Pixelvision"--with a toy camera that gives the most garish images the patina of a dreamscape. Nadja is beyond a midnight movie; it's a late late show for the artistic couch potato...
...pilots nationwide are African Americans. "It has been a struggle all the way," said Perry Jones, a former Air Force flyer and Delta captain who heads the Organization of Black Airline Pilots. "We had more black pilots in 1942 than we do today." Few jobs offer as much glamour as an airline pilot's or pay so well--up to $180,000 a year at a major airline. And few jobs remain so overwhelmingly dominated by white males--97%. "Airlines only hired us because they were sued," says Patrice Clarke Washington, the first black female to gain her stripes...
...happier half an hour later, as she glides into the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. She says she's never been to a place so "posh" before, and the palpable glamour of the room, buzzing with dealmakers, seems to amuse her. A pianist is playing Gershwin songs as Bjork takes a seat at a table and divulges to a reporter her secret way of getting quicker service at snobby restaurants. Recently, when she was eating out, Bjork explains, "I had an apple in my bag, and so I picked it up and started eating it. There...
...suffers, first of all, from a lack of glamour. Some viewers have grown tired of seeing stylish young people on The Real World deconstruct their lives over fine coffee in well-appointed lofts. But it is preferable to watching the Road Rules ensemble tackle such messy chores as emptying the RV's latrine at a dump station. In The Real World, living groups are overloaded with preternaturally cute aspiring actors, models and musicians. The Road Rules crew is more ordinary -- five average-looking college-age men and women with no discernible show-biz goals -- but also less captivating...