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Word: glamourpuss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the glamourpuss, however, there stands a solid character of many-sided balance. Bernstein is a phenomenal extra vert. In his nature, to think is to act. Until recently he never seemed to tire of doing things, handling situations, arranging schedules, playing the life of the party, being all things to all people. He lives in a vague world of superficial friendliness, where charm is an easy way of life, and genuine warmth is reserved for work. And yet, at the worst of his extravertigo, Bernstein never lost sight of his first principles: truth to his word, loyalty to friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Behind the Glamourpuss. At 38, Leon ard Bernstein is not everybody, but very definitely Somebody ? a unique, perennial and very American Wunderkind. He is perfectly cast for the role. His lion head, swept with a sensuously flowing mane of black hair that in recent years has been greying at the temples, makes him seem a big man, even though he is stocky and only 5 ft. 8½ in. tall. The jaw is powerful, the skin rough and swart, the profile jutting and rudely masculine, the lips sensitively curved and humorous. At a glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Hell and Back (Universal) features Audie Murphy, glamourpuss, in the story of Audie Murphy, dogface. Inevitably, the boy seems to be tooting his own tommy gun a bit too loud, but then who else in Hollywood is qualified to play the part of the most decorated soldier in U.S. history-a boy who, at 20, had won every combat medal in the book, from Purple Heart (four times) to Congressional Medal of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Heroes | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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