Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the dictums issued by fashion magazines earlier this fall, the look of the season was "a new glamour," but it might just as easily have been described as call-girl chic. Women were supposed to stride around in stiletto heels, fishnet stockings and microminis -- some of which Vogue featured in colorful versions of rubber and polyvinyl chloride. The same style dominated the spring collections shown in Paris and Milan last month. There were front-slit short skirts from Karl Lagerfeld, gold-mesh biker shorts from Gianfranco Ferre and rhinestone-studded hot pants from the team of Dolce & Gabbana...
...more fashion-oriented magazines, including Glamour and Vogue, are more popular among students who prefer looking at photographs to reading stories...
...think they're offensive or degrading or anything, as long as you're not taking them as gospel," says Corinne E. Funk '97, who subscribes to Cosmopolitan and Glamour...
...actresses had invested theatrical glamour with such elegance and intelligence as Jessica Tandy. So when she appeared at the ceremony with her husband Hume Cronyn to accept the first-ever Tonys for Lifetime Achievement, a hush fell on the heart of Broadway. Most of those in attendance knew that for five years Tandy had been battling ovarian cancer. Most other viewers would realize that the actress, who had turned 85 five days earlier, was in physical distress. That made her patrician poise a brave smile in the face of death. A lady never admits to agony. And Tandy...
...Howard Chua-Eoan: "It's tempting to call this a straightforward story of a man who couldn't handle fame, but in the end, it was a lot sadder and more complicated than that." Observes MacLeod, who worked with Carter in Mozambique in July: "Ambition and a search for glamour and excitement were clearly part of Carter's makeup. But to go into that kind of danger over and over again requires a strong sense of mission or idealism...