The results, such as a glamour girl's head and shoulders on a drawn rider, are charming and even witty, but formally ragged.
Reynolds situates these people and their songs stimulatingly in relation to their times, and in relation to historical movements such as dandyism, and in the original meaning of concepts such as glamour (a word about visual illusions, popularised by Sir Walter Scott in the 1820s).
The hotel had such an air of glamour -- it had an elevated pool, a bar filled with celebrities and politicians, a sensuously curved facade that opened up to a vast collection of rare antiques -- that it was chosen as the setting for a scene in the James Bond movie "Goldfinger".
Such was the appeal of a glamour tie against a Premier League side that on the very day the Glovers were preparing for the game, Accrington Stanley - beaten by Yeovil in a second-round replay last month - announced their plans to mark the fact they had the possibility of facing United in the FA Cup with commemorative tickets for a game with the Red Devils that will not happen.
Daniela Rinaldi, the beauty director at Harvey Nichols, says: "The girls and boys of Liverpool have flown the banner for glamour for such a long time.
So when freelances from Belarus offer to work for Belsat TV, Ms. Romaszewska-Guzy plays down the glamour of such a job and instead plays up the risks they are taking.
If such a league stole all the glamour, money and prestige and if fans began to support foreign clubs as often as their own that would indeed mark a big step by the fans towards pan-Europeanism.
While even the authorities at Harper's Bazaar have praised her instinctive taste in dress on formal occasions, she cares nothing about fashion, and loves to wander about the house without shoes or stockings and to dispense, rather pointedly, with the artificial glamour that plays such a conspicuous role in Avedon's professional life.
I can understand the thrill that must come with saying things that are so offensive and socially unacceptable, but no matter how much glamour comes from such a rebellion, the fact is that it is immoral and irrational to judge individual people based on their race or religion or other group identities.
Their barrister Leo Charalambides said: "It has metamorphasised from a ye olde local English pub into something that's really internationally recognised on the A-list party circuit and by those who would like to get some of the glamour of going to such a venue".
