Word: brighteners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sondheim's pearls are strung together so as to link his guiding themes. He turns obsessively to the tensions and tenacity of marriage, its tidal lure and its shipwreck debris. Almost at the moment that his songs brighten with the delights of love, they darken with the pain of love's transience and loss. Sondheim's inner beat is the tempo of Manhattan and Broadway. His scores are minidramas. His people are night people, thirsting for fame and applause and always vulnerable to the morning-after of the defeated quest. Some of Sondheim's songs...
...flight number and altitude. These data appear, neatly boxed, on the greenish radar screen of the controller. As the plane moves through the air, the tiny box proceeds by tiny hops across the screen. A pilot can attract the attention of a controller by making his flight data brighten, as though a tiny supernova had flared on the radar...
...never see a suggestive picture. It's always a tasteful and glamorous girl to brighten a lot of people's breakfast tables...
...jumbo TriStar. Lockheed failed to book a single TriStar order during 1975, but it sold six extended-range TriStars to British Airways last summer. It plans to deliver a dozen by 1978, adding to the 138 TriStars already in service. Those orders, plus a brisk military business, have helped brighten the outlook for Lockheed after seven bleak years...
...complain, Chancellor apologized for noting, accurately as it happens, that Democrats are generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...