Word: glitteringly
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...Bounce & Glitter. He looks 45, and, in the words of one of his writers, "he thinks he is 19." He diets, drinks very little, and doesn't smoke at all. Advancing age frightens him. So he seldom stops to think about it, zipping around golf courses or around the world, giving the winged chariot a run for its money. This has made him a transient in his own home. He jokes that the towels in his bathroom say HERS and WELCOME STRANGER. His wife spends most of her time working for Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest...
...Russian circus--at least this one--emphasizes polished, difficult performances with little of the American circus' glitter. If this means less drama, it also means much less vulgarity. The fat lady, the tatooed man and the dog-faced boy do not represent a great loss...
...Glitter in the first...
...Parthenon in Athens, near the Diet Building in Tokyo, overlooking the Vatican in Rome and the Queen's private garden in London, on the Nile in Cairo and above the Bosporus in Istanbul, at the foot of the Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab to a crosshatched radio-cabinet style. They lean heavily on the anonymity of modernism, and display a spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money as to attract the clients. In countries where there is no previous standard of hotel...
Like most All Star conclaves, the impending one will probably be a disappointment. This is inevitable, as the glitter of the assembled luminaries can only build up expectations quite impossible to fullfill. Everyone is subject to bad days, and for some reason, some of the biggest stars in baseball tend to go into eclipse during this annual meeting...