Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who knew Dole as she grew up twenty years before the heyday of feminism that molded First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton say there was something different about her. There was a grit beneath the glitter of her debutante life...
...chest-hugging outfits and her coquettish demeanor. Another sobriquet was the Stalker, inspired by her steadfast rush toward the presidential helicopter whenever its whirr announced a landing. She was a child of Beverly Hills privilege--and the product of a bitterly broken home. She delighted in soap operas and glitter; yet she gravitated toward the political hotbed of Washington. She is now the face, the name for scandal, her image frozen in public first impression with that wide smile, in that less-than-flattering photograph. But as her lawyer said last week, she is also a young woman "devastated, concerned...
...hottest clubs, Gurganus demonstrates a superb sense of kitsch. Since he presents the narrative through the eyes of a displaced Southerner with an eye for rural detail, Gurganus is able to display his virtuosity in writing about nature, from the smell of soil in Central Park to the silver glitter of the Hudson River through the grimy windows of a Manhattan apartment building...
Rudenstine said that neither the gloom of yesterday nor the glitter of today will last, and that Harvard, in order to "be here forever," must plan soberly for the future and then stick to this path...
Scotto could be the D.W. Griffith of musical shorts, not so much for his story-telling vigor as for his love of racial stereotypes. He bedecks Armstrong in a leopard-skin tunic, harem pants and body glitter; he urges his black actors to grimace grotesquely and gives them fearful patois to spout ("I run until I's black in de face," says a man fleeing a Latin American revolt in the 1931 Be Like Me). He was not alone in caricaturing African Americans. Crosby, whose crooner inflections owed much to black musicians, wears blackface in the 1932 Dream House...