Word: brightening
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Such assets help, even more than the humor, in this success story of the wife-made man. They brighten up Barrie's essentially unattractive characters. Those hard bargainers and dull conversationalists, the Wylie brothers, are saved by their affection for Maggie. An egocentric John Shand is saved by a humorlessness that makes him funny. And Maggie herself, whose maiden name wasn't Wylie for nothing, becomes an actress' dream part through the love that inspires the wiles...
...prizes that has dangled just out of reach of the scientists is a method of amplifying light: i.e., increasing the brilliance of a dim "picture." It can be done in the innards of electron tubes, but only in ways that are unsatisfactory. The ideal is a system that will brighten an optical image-with all its lights and shadows-just as sound is strengthened by a public-address apparatus...
...first, it is enough to say that Jerard Hartman's comedy script is not funny. The idea, an unwary dupe being pushed into campaigning for clean politics, may not be entirely unsullied by past uses, but settling on a fortune teller's haunt as his headquarters does much to brighten the theme. Situation cannot substitute for wit unfortunately, and Hartman seems to have felt his duties over upon conception...
...fans are more lively, too; not even in enemy Ebbets Field is the razzberry rendered with such enthusiasm. Nor do U.S. bleacher jockeys often get involved in the free-for-alls that brighten the Puerto Rican afternoon. Not long ago, a cop caught a razor-blade salesman handing out free samples in the San Juan stands. Puerto Rican fans have never been known to shave between innings, but they are apt to find other uses for razors...
...when countryfolk made up their own words to familiar secular tunes. Eventually, new tunes were written for community sings, camp meetings and revivals. The custom took root in the South, where musical evangelists and composers published volumes of their own songs. One of them, a trombonist-singer named Homer (Brighten the Corner Where You Are) Rodeheaver, managed the music for Billy Sunday. Gospel songs, he wrote, "are not written for prayer meetings, but to challenge the attention of people on the outside . . . They are used simply as a step from nothing to something...