Word: glamourizing
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...nation can abolish monarchy, as America did with zest in 1776. But it cannot so easily abolish the dynastic impulse. The American fascination with royalty shows itself most flagrantly in our obsession with the Kennedys, but familial succession permeates American political life. Look no further than the glamour races for election year 2000. The top two Republican candidates are the son of a former President and the wife of the party's last presidential candidate (joined at the top by the son of a famous plutocrat...
...movie," says Harlow of one tryst in Red-Headed Woman (she fornicates her way up the social ladder, gets found out and lands in Paris with a new sugar daddy and a stud chauffeur). These guys and dolls could dish it out and just as surely take it. Even glamour types felt the sting of the Depression. In Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich sells her virtue for the price of a meal for herself and her child: 85[cents...
...away the paparazzi while Caroline would have a life in which she could walk her children to school and answer her own phone. She would even intellectualize the quest for privacy in a book on the First Amendment, In Our Defense. While John had an effervescent star quality, a glamour about him and his stylish wife, Caroline was incandescent, without a trace of glitz, but glowing from within. She was entirely free of the resentment that attaches to the famous. She never took its perks or used its privileges except in service of the family. After John's smashing performance...
...going from natty to tatty. DAVID KELLEY seemed to have come straight from a backyard barbecue to the premiere of Lake Placid, which he wrote. The film's star BRIDGET FONDA at least looked well groomed. At the premiere of Eyes Wide Shut, NICOLE KIDMAN turned up the glamour (adorning her arm with what looked like a painful piece of jewelry), while husband and co-star TOM CRUISE dispatched with elegance in favor of studied nonformality. And surely ADAM SANDLER (seen here with co-star ROB SCHNEIDER) could have found a fresh T shirt for the premiere of his film...
...rather shocking deficiency: the phones don?t work inside buildings and in urban areas. So Iridium has been forced to rejigger its target audience from globe-trotting yuppies with big egos and bigger expense accounts to a decidedly different niche: mariners, oil-rig workers and the military. That glamour hemorrhage has turned Iridium?s once-$70 stock into a $6.75 dog. And the competition has come in droves ? companies like Ellipso, Vodafone and Teledesic (which wants to up the ante with an Internet-in-the-sky), arriving late, have benefited from improved technology and learned from Iridium?s mistakes. Meanwhile...