Word: glamourizing
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...assistant in Cambodia,” she exclaims. “She’s doing all this amazing UN goodwill work. I would just love to hang out there, hang out with movie stars but help land mine victims, too. I think there’s too little glamour in volunteer work...
...Instead of deregulating or evolving into a postindustrial economy more focused on services than manufacturing, or encouraging exports in anything other than cars, electronics and similar goods, Japan has been returning (with increasing desperation) to what always worked so well in the past: emphasis on high-glamour manufacturing, new public-spending projects and continued domestic protection. Japan already has more infrastructure than it needs (its "bridges to nowhere" have been made famous by frequent ridicule in the local press) and government debt handily exceeds GDP?two good indicators that the returns on those Keynesian stimuli are diminishing. But like...
...Morris is a glamour player—a wide receiver—and his highlight-reel catches make his level of play accessible to more pedestrian observers. Plays like that catch against Penn in last year’s Ivy title game tend to stick in people’s minds...
...lastly, let’s not forget about the telling results of Rhodes, Marshall and Glamour competitions. In recent years, Harvardians have tended to win about twice or three times as many of the former two much-touted fellowships as Yalies. This just about compensates for Yale’s having, this year, twice as many lucky ladies in Glamour Magazine’s top ten college women—surely the most prestigious contest of them...
...took his decks and 12-inches to London where other DJs, inspired by their trips to Goa, were creating a faster, harder and more synthetically-advanced style of techno dubbed Goa Trance. Tsuyoshi, with his striking features and Japanese post-punk style and sensibility?bondage pants worn with Hysteric Glamour shirts, vintage Clydes and Yohji Yamamoto stovepipes?was like a replicant, custom- made in Japan to thrive in this scene. His popularity spinning at London's now much-eulogized Return To The Source trance party propelled him to the top of the mid-'90s Eurotrance explosion, prompting tours of major...