Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic problem with the resulting book is that, for all the drama in its central character's situation, there is not much in the woman herself. She comes across as drab, passive and emotionally blocked. Her best quality, stubborn persistence, does not lend itself to glamour or theatrics. Besides, she was not present -- victims rarely are -- for the key moments in solving the case and preparing for trial. Thus, in bringing the story back to her, McGinniss keeps having to disrupt its momentum...
...longer found in movie stars who dress down in blue jeans and prefer environmental preservation to nightclubbing. The top mannequins -- among them Cindy Crawford, Elaine Irwin, Karen Mulder and Claudia Schiffer -- always seem perfectly coiffed and coutured, manicured and made up. Says Jerome Bonnouvrier, head of the Paris-based Glamour agency: "Modeling has become the new Hollywood...
...Kerrey shouldn't be judged by his dining establishments. The salad might have lacked pizazz, but Kerrey does not. He has charisma. He has glamour. He's good looking. When "Terms of Endearment" was filmed in Lincoln, Debra Winger, uh, moved into the, uh, Governor's Mansion. Guess who was governor...
What Dying Young really proved is that you don't call a picture Dying Young. The last time they made this movie, a romance about a terminally ill cutie, they were smart enough to call it Love Story. Roberts' rapid ascendancy taught Hollywood that she could sell innocence, glamour, pluck. But not even the movies' most reliable female star since Doris Day could peddle leukemia -- particularly not to a summertime audience that wants only the bad guys to die. So Dying Young did just that, and Roberts' pristine rep got terminated...
...cluttered places smelling of oil and rubber would be startled to walk into a modern American bike outlet. Spotless and often carpeted, crawling with salespeople and outfitted with dressing rooms, specialty bike shops rely on high-margin clothing and cycling gizmos for up to 25% of their revenues. The glamour of biking now draws neophytes who browse through racks of hip-hugging shorts and brightly colored shirts even before they know the difference between a derailleur and a train accident...