The success of Latin pop, for example, depends, like much of popular culture in Latin countries, on its relationship to telenovelas, the Spanish- and Portuguese-language soap operas that promote glamour and escapism.
Here were noncommercial images that promoted not glamour but lawless bohemianism, or just lawlessness.
As Matt Richtel wrote in The Times last week, the mobile phone industry promoted the glamour and convenience of "car phones" for years while failing to heed warnings that driving and phoning can be a deadly mix.
In a business that promotes power and glamour, the 49-year-old Washburn represents neither.
Recently, Glamour magazine ran this photo in an article promoting healthy body image.
Mr. Duato is not shy about using his low-key, rugged blond glamour to promote the company.
Bernard Weber, the Swiss-Canadian explorer who devised this extravaganza, hopes it will put him on a par with Pierre de Coubertin, the Frenchman who revived the Olympics.India has used Bollywood glamour to promote the Taj Mahal.
While George Osborne has guaranteed £10bn for infrastructure in London this decade – and last week appointed former Labour transport secretary Lord Adonis to chair a national infrastructure commission that is likely to promote London's next glamour project, Crossrail 2 – the so-called revenue grant to run the network is likely to be slashed.
In addition to establishing the BASS Masters Classic, promoting jumpsuits, high-powered boats, scientific gadgets, Bass provides a ticket to the middle class for fishermen who never had the glamour appeal that other sports enjoyed.
Freiburg and Leipzig, the two likely teams to get promoted, would further reduce the glamour factor, traditionalists believe.
