Word: glamourously
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...compete for audiences against films and videotapes. One is with spectacle, and the other is with star power." Even so, Duggan concedes, there can be too much of a good thing. He booked Collins at a time when he expected to be offering audiences a unique touch of glamour. But a jumble of long-discussed projects from various producers all came to pass at about the same time, and suddenly rival stars were everywhere...
...post- Calgary blues, his faltering in two world championships and his reconstruction under the severe tutelage of former Olympian Gustavo Thoeni. "I fought to win," said the husky Bolognese. "I gave the best of myself." Whether for giants like Tomba, upstarts like Aamodt or veterans like Fernandez Ochoa, the glamour has come with its fantasies and its fireworks, but only after years of grit...
While Straight Out of Brooklyn was not a box-office smash, it is more realistic than New Jack City and more moving than Boyz in the Hood. The movie avoids the glamour of the drug culture and instead focuses on the dilemma facing ambitious Black youths...
...often stupid, and sometimes stir up a lynch mob. Anyway, the standards vary absurdly. Why is it all right for Bob Kerrey to divorce his wife and invite an actress, Debra Winger, to move into the Nebraska Governor's mansion for a time (the Nebraskans loved that touch of glamour) and wrong for Bill Clinton to stay married to his wife and work through their troubles...
When Steinem, now 57, pours a second cup of coffee and writes like she talks, there is no one more fascinating. The only comparable figure in public life is Ralph Nader, and he doesn't manage the trick of combining her monastic commitment with unapologetic glamour that gets her waved past the velvet ropes at clubs on both coasts. Strangers come up to her on the street and tell her, "You changed my life," and cleaning women at the airport find a place for her to take...