Word: glamourous
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...Chengdu. Although 1,000 miles from the glamour of Shanghai, Chengdu has a surprising number of choices for Wang and her fellow aspirants. As China's fourth largest city, it is catching up to the world's richest at a blistering pace. It has a booming economy, escalating incomes and 10.8 million people--more than New York City. Wooing the newly wealthy of Chengdu is a top priority for consumer companies from Coca-Cola to General Motors to Christian Dior. Chengdu is only one of several mammoth metropolises--like Chongqing, Wuhan and Xi'an--experiencing similar booms of investment, wages...
...time since Tony Blair's 1997 victory. That has infused Britain's Conservatives with a sensation so unfamiliar, they barely recognize it: optimism. Giddy at this turn of fortune, some are already mythologizing the man behind it. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron's "Kennedyesque glamour." Cameron and his wife Samantha - the daughter of a baronet, who sports a tattoo of a dolphin on her ankle - are among London's most sought-after party guests. Says Gregory Barker, a Tory M.P. and member of Cameron's campaign team: "People sniff Camelot...
...Hepburn, born on May 4, 1929, died 14 years ago today, and her ostensibly anachronistic glamour might have died with her. Yet it's that regality, along with her relentless generosity of spirit, that keeps her alive, burnishes her glow. Consider these recent reminders...
...Anyway, the camera loved her natural glamour: the doe eyes, the perfection and intelligence of her mouth. And she trusted the camera to capture the subtle shades of delight or disapproval - passion rendered with delicacy. In Sabrina she must spend most of her time hiding her true feelings from two men who can't decide if they love her. The whole enchanting performance, like so many that would follow, is a private conversation between Hepburn and her 35mm confidante...
...does the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bestow so many awards on the Brits? You might say: because the members are foreign. But no. They love Hollywood glamour, and gleefully toady to it all year, just like native-born journalists. I'd like to think it's because the Anglo actors give more amusingly articulate speeches. They have a 600-year jump on us in using the language, and we've never caught...