Word: glitterful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight U.S. cities that were finally named as stopovers were chosen to serve various purposes. New York, Los Angeles and Washington were foregone conclusions -- three centers of money, clout and glitter that have sizable black communities. Boston was chosen because Senator Edward Kennedy had extended an invitation to Mandela while he was still in jail. Atlanta was included so that Mandela could visit the grave of King and honor the American civil rights movement. Detroit, Miami and Oakland offered opportunities to pay respects to the labor unions that have been staunch supporters of the antiapartheid movement...
...their nondesigner lapels. Instead of the three wardrobe changes a day of her 1987 visit, Gorbachev adopted a dare-to- be-frumpy look for her round of appearances at the Library of Congress, the Capital Children's Museum and the Lincoln bedroom. Although she could not resist adding glitter to Thursday's embassy lunch with such celebrities as Jane Fonda and Dizzy Gillespie -- so famous for being famous they need no parenthetical explanation even in Moscow -- she had the political sense to leave her gold American Express card at home, the $1,700 Cartier diamond earrings in the jewelry...
Glenn Kiser is also delightful as the aggrieved Prince of Denmark. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard imparts a bit more method into Hamlet's madness than can be found in Shakespeare's text, and Kiser adds a devilish glitter to the part...
Chapman quickly became a cultural icon. Her short, spiky dreadlocks signaled a move away from pop glitter. Her music, pared down, almost willfully naive, was an antidote to the synthesized sound of the 1980s. In an age when pop singers seemed more like musical M.B.A.s than recording artists, she seemed genuine. Her politics were mushy headed and self-righteous, yet she was an urban folk singer without the fragility of the genre...
...daughter of a Fort Worth cotton broker. She is up-front about the face-lifting ("Only one, really") and the hair ("Ever notice how women on TV get blonder as they get older?"). A University of Texas graduate who married and divorced twice, she admits to being a "glitter kid" from way back. "Walter Winchell was my idol," she says. "I wanted to go to the Stork Club." Arriving in New York City in 1949, she learned her trade at Modern Screen, Newsweek and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and by working in radio and TV. When she was offered a column...