Word: glitz
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...hype and glitz, the cocky 49ers infuriated their coach, Seth Greenberg--a dead-ringer for Douglas Brackman of L.A. Law. They boasted a lot. They joked around a lot. But they never buckled down long enough to put away the upstarts from the Ivies. Taking what Greenberg described as "an abundance of bad shots," they were outhustled from the start and no matter how often Greenberg--another non-Californian if ever there was one--yapped at his home court referees, he couldn't buy a call...
...look, or variations on it, is everywhere, along with the softer, more soigne tailoring of the French and Italian variety. One recent Wallachs ad trumpeted the virtues of a Christian Dior suit (at $550), a store staple for years even though Wallachs' buyers managed to turn Dior's Gallic glitz into a kind of standard broker bland...
During the roaring 1980s, it appeared that New York might slip by. High finance and a booming real estate market transported New York to a paroxysm of unbridled capitalism, with all its attendant glitz and excess. At the height of the bull market, 60,000 new jobs were being created annually, luring droves of hyperambitious baby boomers to the canyons of Wall Street and midtown Manhattan. Nicknamed "the Erector set," a stable of real estate developers transformed the cityscape, throwing up 50 million sq. ft. of glistening office monoliths within Manhattan alone. New fortunes upended the city's social lineage...
...Times Mirror study notes that the young audience has "buoyed the popularity of the new, lighter media forms," such as People magazine and TV's A Current Affair. The survey may give news executives a further excuse to soften and glitz up their products to try to woo the young. But that means walking a tricky tightrope: in trying to make the news more appetizing, they risk turning it into something other than the news...
...More glitz is on the way. MGM Grand, whose largest stockholder is flamboyant financier Kirk Kerkorian, plans to open a $700 million, 5,000-room hotel and movie-studio theme park in 1992. Attractions at the park will include demonstrations of how films are made. Says Fred Benninger, chairman of MGM Grand: "I think the trend of bare-breasted chorus girls and all that has become passe. People are no longer interested...