Word: glamourizing
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...everyone is caught up in this latest twist. While Tokhtakhounov's potential mafia connections added a bit of much-needed media glamour to the cobwebbed story, Sale and Pelletier were not impressed. The cute-as-a-button pair was back on the morning program circuit Thursday, flashing their trademark grins and shrugging off the whole incident. French ice dancing pair Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat were unamused. "Everybody wants to claim a part of our victory for themselves," Peizerat grumbled to the AP. "The judges think it's thanks to them we're champions, top skating officials...
...Irving Berlin and Gene Kelly. In 1998 I wrote a TIME piece called "High and Low," about the devolution of the people's art. " Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: women's hearts, codes of behavior, the very notion of 'good acting.' In their distinct ways - grace vs. power, gentility vs. menace, tux vs. torn...
...Owen can be bested. Spanish coach Jos? Antonio Camacho put it simply: "Anybody can beat anybody." And this may be the best thing that could have happened to this World Cup and the ones to come. No longer assured of victory by virtue of their star power, the glamour teams will henceforth be obliged to play their best in every game, making for a great spectacle...
...doesn’t have the same glamour that it did,” Shinagel says. “What’s the difference between the Master and the senior tutor? I think there has been a perceived lowering in status...
...writing his next project, a biopic of Howard Hughes. Again he'll plumb the depths of human neuroses and take a funny man to the dark side--in this case, Jim Carrey as the reclusive billionaire. "It's about the extremes to which one man can live--the glamour, the wealth, then the claustrophobic unhappiness," says Nolan with the most benign smile possible...