Word: glitz
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After my experience this summer, I better understand what I dread about the working world: Even if the work is glamorously unrepetitive, it is still unappealingly impersonal. Media work converts one's success into dollar signs and another's loss into high ratings--it takes the drama and glitz away from the changes and events that should spark our sentiments and emotions. The media plays an important, integral role in our society, no doubt. But the toll that it takes on those who micromanage the industry may be too much for me to bear...
...counterpoint to Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch--anticipating the backlash against feminism before there was a hint of it. Her next book, After Reason, called for a commingling of politics and religion just as American evangelicals roused themselves from decades of political apathy. During the era of Reaganite glitz, she settled into the life of a New York author-socialite, the celebrity biographer of Maria Callas and Pablo Picasso. When the Gingrich revolution seemed a far-fetched pipe dream, she signed on as Madame Defarge, and had the sense to decamp when it collapsed...
...hangs out with her blockmates in Eliot or stresses about her next thesis chapter. And, like so many other Harvard students, Chinwe has struck a balance between class and activities. Instead of rowing crew or clocking hours at the IOP, she juggles the daily grind of schoolwork with the glitz and glamour of modeling...