Word: glamourous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope you're not looking for glamour," Richard Tucker once warned a reporter, "because I'm just not the glamorous type." Short, squat and built like a football lineman, Tucker hardly suggested Rodolfo. Not that it mattered. A ringing, luminous sound, fueled by Tucker's majestic belief in both music and the voice he felt that God had given him, was embellishment enough for the legions of operagoers who came year after year to hear Verdi and Puccini melt in his mouth...
...music has never been an easy profession for women. Recognition and glamour are common enough, but women looking for artistic control and financial leverage are usually thwarted. The Crystals and the Ronettes were high on the pop charts in the early '60s, but Phil Spector, multifaceted rock tycoon, wrote the lyrics, produced the records and pocketed most of the profits. In the '60s the men who sold pop music saw women as petulant screamers (Lesley Gore) or filigreed folkies (Judy Collins). Occasionally, women defied the image makers. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick escaped briefly from San Francisco psychedelia...
...professions that require integrity. The pay is small. But that doesn't bother me, because you don't have to put up a facade." Prior to the scandal, the old images of tough muckrakers and dashing foreign correspondents had faded. Now some of the glamour is back. Says Richard Petrow, dean of New York University's program: "When Robert Redford plays the lead in a movie about two reporters, you know something is happening." What is happening is that Watergate has persuaded many students that journalism is an exciting, socially valuable occupation...
...women and children of all vintages, shapes and inclinations are finding a new way to get something off their chests -by putting it on them. They are doing so decked out-and frequently spaced out-in versions of the old World War II T shirt. Underwear elevated to glamour, the current Model T has suddenly become the hottest fashion trend in the U.S. It might be called the dress-to-express vogue...
...Glamour Issues. Sauvé worked with the Chicago brokerage house of McMahon and Hoban in setting up and operating the fund. But just what the St. Joseph Trust invested in remains a secret, though one story indicates a heavy purchase of glamour electronics issues. The Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly found illegalities in some of the investment activities, but no evidence of fraudulent intent...