Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the letter, the Ecolympics first came to the attention of the Olympics Committee in June 1991, when the program was mentioned in an article in Glamour magazine...
...theme park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs an attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan and Dolphin hotels in Florida) and Robert...
What brought Tyson down is what brought him fame: the popular view of the male athlete. Tyson's skill made him champ. The glamour that fans saw in Tyson helped him think he was invincible, immune to rejection or conviction. And his belief in his machismo -- the male athlete's mandatory arrogance -- made him insist that, in the matter of rape, he was blameless...
...compete for audiences against films and videotapes. One is with spectacle, and the other is with star power." Even so, Duggan concedes, there can be too much of a good thing. He booked Collins at a time when he expected to be offering audiences a unique touch of glamour. But a jumble of long-discussed projects from various producers all came to pass at about the same time, and suddenly rival stars were everywhere...
...post- Calgary blues, his faltering in two world championships and his reconstruction under the severe tutelage of former Olympian Gustavo Thoeni. "I fought to win," said the husky Bolognese. "I gave the best of myself." Whether for giants like Tomba, upstarts like Aamodt or veterans like Fernandez Ochoa, the glamour has come with its fantasies and its fireworks, but only after years of grit...