Word: enlivens
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...these sculptures, murals, playgrounds and unclassifiable opuses aren't meant for millionaires' collections or 9-5, open-late-on-Tuesdays museums-they will enliven streets and public places. And perhaps because anyone from grade-school children to established artists could submit a project, designs run a never-stuffy gamut from the mischievous to the elegant...
...does not really need one, and if he had one he would probably use it as a plumber's helper. At 42, Scott is easily one of the best actors in films today, a varied performer whose chameleon talents can always be counted on to enliven any project with vigor, subtlety and surprise. Or almost any project. Scott has muffed it occasionally. "Hell, I've compromised all my life. Ever see Not With My Wife, You Don't!* But something good always seems to come along sooner or later...
This scene, or something like it, expresses what is obviously a widespread current sex fantasy. Every so often, the movie business feels the need to create a new character-part joke, part sex bomb, seducible, available, palpable-to enliven the daydreams of the American male. The phase is familiar, and Raquel Welch is going through it. "People think of me as some zaftig lady with two stereo nose cones staring everyone in the face," she admits. "The American idea of sex is two outsized mammary glands...
...whose ideas have won out. A giant whirlpool froths and roars in the entrance plaza. Arriving cars will be whisked up a ramp to a parking wing, while guests register in the vast lobby. Most of the hotel, inside and out, is finished in rough white plaster; art works enliven public places, and there are whole walls painted in fierce pink, yellow or purple-all good Mexican colors. The bedrooms are unusually large -some 23 ft. by 14 ft.-and the corridors are 10 ft. wide...
...seconding speeches even for favorite-son candidates. All the Republican National Committee had really done was to delay the proceedings until prime time and to limit the seconding speeches for candidates to five minutes. The net works found themselves reporting a spectacle whose script they were basically powerless to enliven. As NBC's John Chancellor noted in retrospect: "Conventions were structured and their main patterns made up when people got their information from newspapers. Today we are seeing something that was made for a newspaper age that has survived into...