Word: glamourous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooray for Hollywood/ That phony super Coney Hollywood," lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year...
...show, repeated tirelessly before different audiences, underscores both her strengths and weaknesses. She has instant recognition and a kind of asphalt glamour unmatched by any of her male adversaries in the race. She is also highly credible to ordinary voters, many of whom seem ready for a tough voice. That same message, however, makes her suspect among those who fear a return to the city's bad old days of openhanded spending on social services, consider her leftish, and point to her lack of administrative experience. And, just below the surface of her current relatively controlled persona, lurks...
...show's creators were cashing in on the public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as The Singing Fool, Show of Shows, Hollywood Revue, Footlight Parade, Forty-Second Street, the Broadway Melody series, and the Gold Diggers series...
...DREAMER. Will Cady Perkins, 22, of the Pratt Institute in New York City, is a misfit in the modern world. . "If I had my way, the glamour of kings and queens would come back," he says wistfully. "Life today can be pretty dull. People should run around in period costumes." Last month the blond, bearded graduate created a still-life puppet show, with twelve porcelain-headed puppets in full Victorian dress, in a gallery of the main building at Pratt. Perkins changed the puppets' positions each day and used cards to explain what was happening in his mini-Forsyte...
World-class milers, the heroes of track's glamour event, have for years been among the best-paid amateurs. Few have pulled on their running shoes for less than $1,000. Pole vaulters have been paid bonuses of $100 for every inch they soar over 17 ft. 6 in., a height easily within the range of top performers; the world record is 18 ft. 8¼ in., and the vaulters can pick up a tidy sum before the going gets serious. One former Olympic medalist once hinted to a shoe manufacturer that he wanted...