Word: tinsel
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Perhaps the trouble with Romanoff's today is that its proprietor has gone straight. Hollywood accepted him in the first place because an actor of Romanoff's caliber could not go unrewarded in a city of actors. "Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath," said Oscar Levant. Mike Romanoff was the real tinsel, a phony who wore his phoniness with such transparent innocence that it turned away wrath...
...months. And Mankiewicz, Zanuck said, had been expensive, too: in 20 months, he had earned $1,760,000 and been given $60,000 more for personal expenses. "Maybe Joe has changed," Zanuck observed sadly. "After a year and a half directing Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony, some of the tinsel may have rubbed...
...sequiturs that on occasion proved knockout blows. Perhaps the most inspired of these-a daunted parent's reply to a child's bedeviling question-provided the title for Shut Up, He Explained, which restores the second Lardner to print with a mixed bag containing glittering tinsel as well as genuine treasures...
...Tinsel-like strips, similar to the shredded British-designed material called window used with great success by R.A.F. and U.S. bombers in World War II to impair the accuracy of Hitler's radar-controlled antiaircraft guns...
...when all the tinsel and touting are swept away, what they want, after all, is the pleasure of giving, a tradition and a need that is older than Christendom. Pagans celebrated the winter solstice with bonfires to strengthen the sun in its course, exchanged wreaths and candles and crowded their streets in noisy processions. The Romans celebrated the Saturnalia (Dec. 19-25) by giving presents to the poor and in return received garlands, tapers or grains of frankincense. On the Kalends of January (Jan. 1-3), Roman men gave one another "honeyed things" to ensure a year of sweetness, lamps...