Word: glamourous
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...Radcliffe name] always lent the program a certain degree of glamour," said David M. Granger, editor-in-chief of Esquire Magazine and a 1982 program alumnus. "Columbia is a fantastic school, but Harvard still has the glow...
...House and Senate introduced bills to make it official. Coaches and university heads testified, including Graham Spanier, president of Penn State: "There has been a blurring of the line between legal and illegal sports gambling in this country. Sports gambling has become such a part of the glamour of Las Vegas that it is fairly safe to conclude that many do not know that gambling on college sports is an illegal activity in virtually every state in the United States." Dozens of other organizations outside the athletic community also urged Congress to act. They represented Republicans and Democrats; church, family...
...match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred pages, it becomes a little much--and that's before Smith shares her thoughts on religion. Still, if you like worshipful, '40s-style celebrity journalism and old-Hollywood glamour--Smith's career spans anecdotes of Tallulah Bankhead, Elizabeth Taylor and Julia Roberts--this book...
...bark like a nasty terrier. Sometimes he bit as well; he went after his enemies like a dog after the mailman. If he came to know some of the secrets of the deep, he learned them the hard way. Certainly at the end, he knew about the ironies of glamour and fame and money, and of sudden, violent loss...
...tent was run by four incredibly nice 40-year-old guys in skirts from West L.A. who called themselves the Staggering Libido Sisters and at a prior Burning Man ran a tent called the Pamela Anderson Lee Celebrity Badminton Tournament and Glamour Workshop. It wasn't until I allowed them to take a picture of my armpit and felt Carmen Libido raise my arm, inhale and shout "A+!!" that my gaydar blipped. When Shaboom Libido started videotaping and said, "This is Joel, our straight man, whom we are going to convert or at least use before this weekend is over...