Word: glitzed
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...RETURNED TO THE HOUSE OF BLUES THE following Saturday to see what it would be like with no glitz, no TV cameras and no free champagne--just real people paying for their own beer. This time, there was room to move inside, and the over-whelmingly white audience seemed to be having a super-duper time (many of them had even seen that knee-slapper Blues Brothers movie). Hubert Sumlin was on stage, and as he played into the middle of his set, an entire roomful of born-again blues brothers and sisters lets loose heartfelt whoops of deliverance from...
...Reagan years. He pointedly said in his early days as President that he would insist on ethical government, that he would be kinder and gentler, that he would be a "hands on" President. The contrast with laid-back Ronnie and his scandals was never very subtle. The shallow Hollywood glitz, which was useful for regaining the White House from Jimmy Carter, would be replaced by solid Republican virtues now that patrician George was in the Oval Office. The simpleminded rhetoric about an evil empire would yield to more refined management of foreign policy under the former director...
Alternate: ALAN DERSHOWITZ--Glitz,glamour and chutzpah. Big on first amendment.Short on humility...
Clad plainly in a red sweatshirt and large steel-rimmed glasses, Friedkin shied from showy Hollywood glitz during the interview. Instead, he spoke with animation and eloquence on the issues presented in "Rampage": the death penalty, the insanity defense, the role of psychiatry in criminal justice and violent crime...
...rich people live, dress and accessorize. The show offers runway reports of next season's couture (for the women) with more cleavage than anywhere this side of pay cable (for men), plus grooming tips and a visit to some fashion pooh-bah's aerie. Hovering above the glitz, as stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl Lagerfeld could kill his mother," she told HG, "and I'd just ask him about the design of his clothes." Who else could merge Diana Vreeland...