Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Puritans may damn hedonism, but there is no other principle more suited to the life of youth. Yet there is a cautionary note, to be directed at all aspiring student greats. The glamour to be reaped is but a temporary one, born in a small community of willing star-seekers. It is a cardinal sin to assume an air of conceit in such an environment, for this is not your authentic self you are putting on display, but a mere moment of show beneath which little distinguishes you from the common herd...
...conclusion that is merely melodramatic -- and rather lamely so -- you begin to wonder why, setting aside the opportunities for superficial flash offered to De Niro, anyone bothered with this enterprise, which is, in fact, a remake of a middling 1950 noir drama. It probably would have required the dark glamour of period conventions and convictions to sustain it. Director Irwin Winkler succeeds mainly in conveying his own edginess, and screenwriter Richard Price cannot seem to get his people grounded either in reality or in a metaphorically persuasive fictional realm. The result is a nervous and very distancing movie...
...love American Politics. I love the kitsch, the glamour, the lies, the outrageous slander. However it is so overtly theatrical, a circus of the grotesque and iniquitous (is Ross Perot's campaign chief really named Orson Swindle?), that's it's hard to believe it really matters. When the candidates hurl statistics at each other, assign the problems of a nation to its deficit, or impugn each others' characters, we are lost in a sea of words and accusations, whose truth and importance lies beyond cognition. As campaign teams battle with Vietnam, or tax rises, they attempt to sway...
...THAT TIME OF THE YEAR again, when the Square is invaded by just about every boarding school kid in the Northeast. We've had enough publicity and glamour with our recent list of Harvard's cultural elite, so we've stayed clear of the masses congregated here for the Head and instead stopped by E.O. Wilson's office. We'll print an interview with the eminent biologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner next week. He has a new book out on, well, LIFE. Very broad, considering that his latest book was the seminal history and classification of ants...
WHAT WOULD YOU PAY FOR A dream? Radiant sunshine. A light breeze caressing your newly tanned torso. Glamour, companionship, security, all in one pretty parcel. A place that's yours, you own it, easy installments. A dream called home. What would you pay for a deluxe retirement condo? These guys can get it for you -- wholesale, practically...