Word: glittering
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...offered in novelty shops for $2.50 each, are the latest gimmick from master Marketer Stephen Askin, 43, of Los Angeles. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Askin sold Ayatullah Dartboards. More recently he has developed aerosol cans of water labeled Nuclear Fallout Repellant. Even zanier is his Deeley Bobber, a glitter-coated headset that looks like insect antennae. In the past ten weeks an estimated 2 million bobbers have been sold at $2.99 each...
...relief to know that the art of film making still exists in the creative mind of Steven Spielberg. He has raised himself above the industry's inflated egos and bloated budgets to show that there's some glitter left in Hollywood...
...there were shadows on the ceremonial glitter of the tour. Germans who took to the streets to protest against nuclear weapons seemed equally anxious to lambaste the U.S. and ridicule Reagan. Supertight security precautions both annoyed Reagan's European hosts and made the President seem a remote figure. European crowds, who had attended big rallies and waved small American flags for previous touring Presidents, this time had to settle for watching pageantry-filled spectacles on TV or at best catching a brief glimpse of a whizzing motorcade...
...this life of dazzle and glitter ends, typically, with Spielberg, wearing a body shirt, hopping into bed at 8:15 with a carton of take-out tacos, to read scripts and watch TV. He falls asleep watching Nightline. Says he: "TV is video Valium...
...human. The rich enjoy the same pleasures, but theirs are flavored with caviar. They back the same causes, but on a grander scale. Jock Whitney escaped from Nazi captors and "fought for freedom. "His paper, the now defunct New York Tribune, endorsed Lyndon Johnson for President. Demigods of glitter, the jet set lands now and then to mingle and be ogled...