Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rhinestone, long a synonym for the meretricious, has its reputation restored in a glamorous collection of brooches, necklaces, tiaras, shoe buckles, bracelets and earrings. Then again, even Styrofoam would glitter on such icons as Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn...
...downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughtiest kid in the territory. After the game, the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
...From an elegant window, official tassels glitter against a clear view of the sky;/ Clouds enter, and one could stoop them along with one's sleeves./ There is no predicting whether I'll return to this place again;/ About to leave, I brush past the rocks and waste a new verse...
Mistake two: the ideal panel for literary prizes is a group of harmless but well-read drudges who are happy with modest honorariums and the free coffee and doughnuts served at meetings. The Turner people made the blunder of assuming that prestigious judges would confer glitter on the new awards. They assembled, at $10,000 a pop, a blue-ribbon panel including not only Styron, Matthiessen and Bradbury but Nadine Gordimer and Carlos Fuentes as well...
Ronald Brownstein's The Power and the Glitter is a history of the relationship between Hollywood and Washington. But Brownstein does not really mine the mythological and sociological bond between the two cities. Instead, he recounts the times that Hollywood and Washington have intersected on affairs of state and of the heart. His research suggests that while Washington occasionally flirts with Hollywood, Hollywood has long been an unrequited suitor in the corridors of power. In the end Brownstein's book is less a history of the connection between Washington politics and Hollywood dazzle than a diligent and readable survey...