Word: glitz
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ramrod straight - he could have been an exhibit in some future Museum of Natural History: Politicianus americanus. Matt Lauer and a Today show crew were following him around, and at the high school speech Romney did a slightly cheesy thing, inviting Lauer on stage, amping his candidacy with a.m. glitz. Romney said that "in a moment of frivolity" he had picked up a tabloid magazine and found that Lauer had been named the early-morning host with "the best bod in a bathing suit." To his credit, Lauer asked Romney a tough question about Iraq: What happens if things...
...Humankind's downfall is, of course, a perennial topic for filmmakers, and watching the news-seeing real-life tragedy of an appalling and insoluble nature befall their fellow human beings-gnaws at the entrails of some directors, inspiring them to forsake glitz for grit. That's very noble, the movie moneymen say, but will anybody pay to see your scalding exposé of how rotten everything is? The answer is they will, if the filmmaker is Michael Moore...
Steven Spielberg is helping stage the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Games. Olympic glitz is an evolving, controversial...
Then, in the 1990s, the Democratic wave crashed and Republicans regained control of the region. Part of it was disappointment with Clinton, whose presidency seemed a coastal combination of Ivy League intellectualizing and Hollywood glitz. Clinton's decidedly humid empathy, his lack of personal discipline, didn't seem very Western, either. The primacy of the national Democratic Party--the party that was weak on national defense but strong on racial preferences, gun control and trade unions--proved a significant drag on Rocky Mountain Democrats running for local office. And so did the excesses of the more extreme environmental groups...
Then, in the 1990s, the Democratic wave crashed and Republicans regained control of the region. Part of it was disappointment with Clinton, whose presidency seemed a coastal combination of Ivy League intellectualizing and Hollywood glitz. Clinton's decidedly humid empathy, his lack of personal discipline, didn't seem very Western, either. The primacy of the national Democratic Party--the party that was weak on national defense but strong on racial preferences, gun control and trade unions--proved a significant drag on Rocky Mountain Democrats running for local office. And so did the excesses of the more extreme environmental groups...