Word: glamourizing
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McInerney's taste has also, amazingly, remained focused on the dazzle of glamour. This is a guy who's been married to a model and has lived with two others, and it still isn't out of his system. "I think for the moment I've exhausted my observations of it," he admits. "But the day I overcome my spectator's interest in beauty, I think I'd better take my pulse...
...solar system has a glamour world, Jupiter--with its brilliant colors, vast size and fruit fly-like swarm of 16 moons--has always been it. The planet appeared more elegant still in 1979, when the Voyager space probes discovered that it is circled by a fine set of nested rings...
...Harvard's own was at the center of glitz and glamour Saturday night, when Elizabeth E. Hancock '00, Miss Massachusetts, competed in the 78th Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City...
What sets Sosa apart is the consideration that every at-bat plays into a larger equation than the glamour of personal excellence. His first, indeed his only concern is Chicago's spot in the playoffs...
...Tennis Partner (HarperCollins; 345 pages; $25) begins, it finds Verghese moving with his wife and two sons to El Paso, Texas, a frontera culture whose dusty glamour seduces this connoisseur of border crossings. But as he separates from his wife, Verghese begins to anchor himself more and more through his regular tennis games with a charismatic Australian medical student of his called David. Only slowly does he realize that his tennis coach, student and friend is, like many doctors (he informs us), caught in a cycle of drug dependency...