Word: glamourizing
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...Well, this is the moment you've been waiting for. Tuesday night, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Senator Edward Kennedy took the Staples Center stage to uproarious applause, bringing with them the benevolent ghosts of 1960, a whiff of left-wing politics and, oh, yes - the indelible glamour of the most famous name in American politics. The Kennedy double feature created a tableau many in the Democratic base have been longing for: A pit stop on memory lane, a chance to look back fondly to a time when the major political parties contrasted starkly in their rhetoric. Forty years ago, when...
...also accrued something that the glamour athletes never will. "I have $100,000 in student loans to pay back," he says. Smith has an M.B.A. from M.I.T. and wants to put it to work--full time--when the Olympics are over. "I've subjugated all the other parts of my life to rowing for a long time," he says...
...after the 1994 pageant, there were victory processions, gala parties and countless interviews. For fans like Yukta Mookhey, a teenager growing up in a middle-class suburb of Bombay, Sushmita was living a dream: she had been wrenched from an ordinary life and forged by the blast furnace of glamour and fame into a celebrity. Yukta, then 15, told her family that she too would one day wear a glittering crown. Her parents smiled at her adolescent fantasies, talked about college and dismissed the whimsical ambition. But Yukta sulked and threw tantrums and eventually persuaded her father to support...
...unprecedented run of global titles--in the past six years, five Indians have won the coveted Miss Universe or Miss World crowns while four others were runners-up--has spawned a beauty boom in a country where only a generation ago women in the glamour business were considered licentious. Now, conservative middle-class dads urge their daughters into bikinis, and moms put them on high-protein diets intended (perhaps naively) to help them achieve the ramp-mandatory 5-ft. 7-in. height requirement. The organizer of the annual Miss India contest, the Times of India group of newspapers and magazines...
...Glamour magazine named her as one of "Eleven Women Who Could Change the Country." Two years later, Swift was elected as lieutenant governor...