Word: glittering
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...several high school basketball All-America teams. He led his stellar basketball team over rival Ron Perry's Catholic Memorial to the State Championship. He was lauded in all the local media for his heroics. Scholar-athlete, school hero, interviews, all-expenses-paid-come-see-our-campus-strips, glitter and gold, from rages to riches...
...glitter of Hollywood began to show signs of tarnish shortly before World War II, when studios-and their owners and stars-began moving to the flossy, faddish suburbs. The original Hollywood neighborhood had deteriorated to the level of seedy respectability when hippies and a punk element, turned on by drugs, arrived in the mid-1960s. From 1969 through 1975, the robbery, burglary and homicide rates in Hollywood climbed nearly twice as fast as for Los Angeles as a whole; narcotics and liquor violations rose more than five times as fast. Last year there were 2,168 prostitution arrests in Hollywood...
...decade was scarcely a year old when the nightmares began. The demoniac leer of Charles Manson. Confessions without remorse. An aerospace unemployment line of 180,000 bodies. Flickering images of a bank burning. Such impulses, such possibilities, had always been there beneath the glitter, but once they surfaced, it was hard to see Utopia any longer. Suddenly, a 1971 California poll showed that half the state's recent arrivals, plus a full third of its permanent residents, would leave if given the chance. This was big news. By 1972 California migration was 90% below the annual rate...
...including Steve McQueen, who had left Creative Management Associates before it was acquired by I.C.M. Josephson lured him to I.C.M., suggesting the possibility of his playing a latter-day Rhett Butler. Though Josephson is often seen watering his clients at the Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge, he shuns Hollywood glitter and lives quietly in a Manhattan penthouse with his second wife. He strenuously avoids personal publicity, preferring to maintain the I.C.M. image of dignity and professionalism. Says longtime client Harry Reasoner of ABC: "He's concerned about your progress, but he knows when to tell you to shut...
...trying to make sparkling conversation with sparkless companions. So they started inventing crazy things to do. For several weeks, they went to mixers and parties together and pretended they were from Wellesley. When they tired of that game, they would dress identically and outrageously, dripping with makeup and glitter. They appeared loftily bizarre and danced and spoke only to one another. The women planned their escapades as a silly diversion but when they recognized them as a vapid defense, they resumed their old routine and suffered through the parties, always aware of their status as unattached Radcliffe women...