Word: glamourous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she serves a dinner of warm milk (hers liberally laced from a pocketbook flask) in an apartment without electricity, to the climactic reunion, when she arrives unkempt in a bedraggled housecoat and proceeds to exude glamour and sophistication from every pore, she makes life an adventure. Unlike the mother in The Glass Menagerie, whose tale of having 17 gentlemen callers seems a sad fib, Elise is convincing when she says, "I used to make quite the impression when I entered a room. I stood perfectly still...
Rhetoric comparing 1988 with 1960 has a wistful, if cynical, political purpose. It attempts to make a live political connection through the increasingly important American sacrament of memory. It wishes to mobilize nostalgia in order to give glamour and energy to a dismal, weightless campaign. It is politics as seance...
...They weren't prepared to play football. They were in a world of glamour and press. It was just a bad football game and we played worse," said Columbia football Coach Larry McElreavy, after Columbia had its one-game winning streak snapped by Yale this weekend...
Pearl Bailey sang and basketball star Patrick Ewing reminisced, adding a dash of glamour to an event that was beamed by satellite to 37 cities around the country. But the 3,000 other alumni, dignitaries and Catholic clergy who crowded into Washington's cavernous Constitution Hall on Oct. 1 did not come for the stargazing alone. Their purpose was to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 200th anniversary of Georgetown University, the nation's oldest Catholic institution of higher learning. The festivities were a bit early: Georgetown was actually founded in 1789. But that hardly seemed to matter...
...season's most highly touted new drama may be its biggest disappointment. Tattingers, co-created by St. Elsewhere executive producer Bruce Paltrow, is set in a posh Manhattan restaurant. But while striving for Park Avenue glamour, this NBC show has picked up its plots from Gimbels basement. Super- rich restaurateur Nick Tattinger (Stephen Collins) returns from a stay in Europe and sets about reviving the fortunes of his eatery, fending off a developer trying to strong-arm him into selling out and attempting to smooth relations with his high-society ex-wife (Blythe Danner, one of several good actors wasted...