Word: glitz
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Amidst the glitz and glamour of the ceremony, Waters delivered a keynote address while members of the BMF presented awards to each of the seven student honorees...
...46p.m. A parental Bridget Jones look-alike shows off her pinstriped mini-skirt and tank top, decorated with all the glitz of a gaudy Christmas tree. She scoops a sundae into her pouty mouth...
...Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture," an exhibition that runs from Oct. 9 through Jan. 16 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traces an aesthetic of surplus and superabundance that continually bursts forth in clothing, buildings, automobiles and objects--a taste for luxury, spectacle and even pure, shameless glitz that has exploded unmistakably into the present. --BY RICHARD LACAYO
...Their time will come. The opening of the Sands Macau, a $240 million waterfront pleasure dome, offers Asia its first taste of Las Vegas glitz, and the casino will soon be followed by others like it. In 2002 the local government ended a 40-year monopoly on the gambling business, permitting two of Vegas' biggest gaming magnates to open up shop. The economic boom that has ensued is loud even by Chinese standards. While nearby Hong Kong's economy, with a total population 15 times the size of Macau's 450,000, grew just 3.3% during a SARS-marred...
...genuine, old-school glamour a dead end as a marketing strategy? Has it been replaced by its chintzy cousin, glitz? While it's true that glamour is no longer reserved for the lucky few, the original definition survives more or less intact. Consumers respond to celebrity, individual style, mystery and scarcity. Snob-appeal companies like Harry Winston, Tiffany & Co. and Neiman Marcus certainly have an easier time, since they own the upper end, yet--in Tiffany's case--can still sell $50 trinkets...