But she casts her sympathetic net wide, to a "glamorous bitch" and "wonderful boys".
By Winifred Willis The New Yorker, November 25 , 1939P. 48 Amos, a prep school boy, was expecting a visit from his mother, a glamorous Hollywood movie star, and every boy at the Southern California Prep had been in a flutter ever since that it had become known that she would be at the school today.
But his one obvious skill, which was playing the piano very well, brought the surprised boy membership in a glamorous fraternity.
My friend Alma, a glamorous French-Lebanese mother of two small boys, passed the name on a slip of paper under the table.
Terry is far from a glamorous character, though he has a bad-boy appeal not unlike another beer-guzzling layabout named Uncle Terry Mark Ruffaloo's character in Mr. Lonergan's movie "You Can Count on Me".
The show could make more of this amusing contradiction (he's a glamorous movie star who comes across as a farm boy who just wants a gal and a white picket fence) but doesn't.
The public's initial response, he said, was, "We are building rockets, we can cure illnesses, and we can take a boy from the Bronx and turn him into a glamorous woman!" Glamorous is the right word.
It was a glamorous club, captured and skewered in Timothy Crouse's best-selling "The Boys on the Bus," about the 1972 campaign.
When the Jews were shoved into the transport cars the adolescent girls and boys were at the age when you harbor dreams and yearnings of a glamorous future.
"It's a glamorous occupation".
