Word: glitz
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After a brief hobnob with journalists at the British embassy, they headed upstairs to their cozy three-room suite to rest up for the gala White House dinner Saturday evening. The swanky soiree for only 79 guests, certainly the hottest ticket in town, was a mixture of glitz and ritz, power and talent. The guests included Actors Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck and John Travolta, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping...
...Couturier Geoffrey Beene observed in the New York Times: "Some of the design is not on target to me as a professional, but who cares? Her presence overcomes any banalities of dress." The London Express's royal watcher Jean Rook concluded, "She has given America what it craved, glamour, glitz . . . Dianasty." There were some fluffed lines, to be sure. At the White House banquet, President Reagan introduced her first as "Princess David," then "Princess Diane." For his part, Charles spoke briefly and sat down, forgetting for a second to give his toast. In Palm Beach, Fla., on the last...
Everything about Ms. Congeniality 2 is more over-the-top than the first. The first film found its humor in mocking the tackiness of beauty pageantry; the second takes the FBI team to Vegas, the capital of camp and glitz. Homosexual stereotypes and humor abound in both films; ironically, the now girly Hart is actually “gayer” in the second, as she performs in a drag show and pokes (the actual) Dolly Parton’s (fake) breasts...
Cornell began the Ivy season strong, defeating Columbia, 4-3, on April 2. The team, which is led by first-year coach Laura Glitz, is pleased with its results thus far and is looking forward to upsetting the perennial favorites...
...Macau has been undergoing an economic boom since the local government ended a longstanding monopoly and opened the casino business to foreign investors in 2002. But the Cotai Strip takes the boom, and the city's glitz factor, to a whole new level. The first part of the project, slated for completion in 2007, includes Hilton, Marriott, Dorsett, Sheraton, InterContinental, Regal and Four Seasons hotels and casinos in addition to Adelson's own Venetian Macao. Besides more than doubling the number of hotel rooms in the city, the 1.3-km Cotai Strip's initial phase will boost entertainment and business...