Word: glamourous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These celebrities are politically useful not because an endorsement from Boy George will away any culture Club fanatic to vote Republican (most of them are too young to vote anyway), but for associations of youth, glamour, and vitality that they bring. Reagan, the Acting President, realizes that he does not need the personal OK of a superstar to shine from his or her reflected charisma. Reagan's hyper-publicized photo with God's Gift to the Sequin Industry was seen by more potential voters than the Republican National convention, and was a lot easier on the eyes. One would almost...
...costume. Unchanged since the hotel opened in 1966, the uniform, with its uncomfortable corset top and cutie-pie short pleated skirt, is as archaic as the clothes in a Currier & Ives print. The Goddesses, carrying a tray of drinks in one hand, give a thin gloss of glamour to a job that is a grueling eight-hour hike in high heels. But, says Goddess Bonnie Arrage, "I'm one of nine sisters, born in Kentucky. I was working as a secretary in Michigan, and I got laid off. I decided I wanted to go where there was money left...
...talks to the other husband; they agree not only to offer their errant spouses their freedom, but to give them allowances as well (in Auchincloss's world it is often the women who have the money). "Our job," says Justine, "is to strip their fantasy of its glamour. The first thing to remove is its illegality. They must feel free to marry." Her subtle plan works, of course: the family remains intact, at least on the surface...
Dutka has collected some show business memories: "Cats Director Trevor Nunn giving me a mesmerizing reading of T.S. Eliot's 'Grizabella, the Glamour Cat'; Paul Newman letting me take a rare close look at his souped-up Volkswagen; South African Playwright Athol Fugard sitting in the Algonquin Hotel lobby and analyzing the tragedy of apartheid; Robert Redford asking for my opinions on President Reagan, the press and living in New York City before launching into a discussion of directing in Hollywood...
...breathtaking meditation on depression and fragmentation that became an emblem of the late '60s. Those were also the years when Didion did some chilly observing of Nancy Reagan in the uncomfortable role of the perfect Governor's wife. Although the Victors have Kennedyesque political notions and glamour, the hilarious backroom detail in Democracy may come from Sacramento...