Word: afterglow
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...their own venom. Howard Davies' direction, unobtrusive until the marquise declares war on her erstwhile sparring partner, fills the play's final minutes with haze and glare and an eerie, slow-motion duel. The end brings wholly unanticipated griefs to the apparent survivors. Yet there is no comforting afterglow of justice or even vengeance -- only the acrid residue of wanton agony...
That seems the charm, though the charm is not always what it seems. In the championship game two years ago, Villanova was directed to an implausible 66-64 victory over Georgetown by an appealing point guard named Gary McLain. The Wildcats' pizzaman coach, Rollie Massimino, said in the afterglow, "I've screamed at this group more than any other, not because they are such good players but because they are such good kids." McLain described Massimino as "a brother, a friend, a father, your boss, your coach...
...LIVELIEST SPIRIT Marilyn Monroe, whose sexy memory still fascinated writers like Gloria Steinem, who wrote one of at least four new books about her (Marilyn), and Norman Mailer, who wrote one of two new plays (Strawhead); and whose platinum afterglow inspired Madonna to remake herself in M.M.'s image...
...roseate elegance of another dress showered with embroidered petals could seem, to the mannequin at the door, either an invitation or a challenge. To anyone looking in from outside, the dress draws the eye instantly and infuses the whole scene with its own tones of luxuriant nostalgia, the lasting afterglow of a perpetual sunset...
With a Democratic-dominated House and a Republican-controlled Senate, tax reform cannot succeed without the support of both parties. In the afterglow of Reagan's speech, there were ritual promises of bipartisanship, but old rivalries and resentments are sure to resurface. Rostenkowski, for one, has some scores to settle with the Reaganauts. In 1981 they lured him into supporting tax cuts and then dumped his compromise bill to pass their own. Though he was all sweetness in his TV address, Rostenkowski is "irritated" that the Reaganauts did not include him in their final deliberations on the tax plan. "They...