Word: glossiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean everybody. It was the glossiest audience you could imagine. Everyone was tan and nifty, and half of them seemed to have put their evening clothes on over their bathing suits. I alone saw Dina Merrill, Carroll Baker, Lauren Bacall, Hume Cronyn, Red Buttons, Bea Lillie, Lee Remick, Montgomery Clift, and Kitty Carlisle with a man I didn't recognize, but I heard someone say it was Alan Jay Lerner. Carol Channing was there in a white stovepipe hat two feet high and an enormous pair of wrap-around sunglasses that would embarrass a Greyhound bus driver. I learned...
...advertise, they have put on some admirable prestige shows, such as an exhibition of Van Gogh self-portraits and a show of the works of the Bauhaus. They send out the glossiest catalogues, give the flossiest cocktail parties. What bothers their competitors is the brash commercialism with which they do all this. "I'm sorry to have to admit it," says Lloyd's son Gilbert, who is now on the staff, "but Marlborough is the most hated gallery in London...
...Glossiest train now running is Italy's Settebello, which barrels along at 98 m.p.h. between Rome and Milan, has cut the rail trip by two hours to 6 hr. 20 min. It carries only 160 passengers, and they can enjoy piped music, patronize the train's barber, manicurist, telephone, newsstand and shower. Despite a 45% surcharge, the Settebello is often sold...