Word: gem
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...acting, Richard Burton's performance is a technician's marvel. His voice has gem-cutting precision and he can outroar Times Square traffic, though he lacks the liquid melody that Gielgud supplies as the voice of Hamlet's father's unseen ghost. His hands punctuate the speeches with percussive rhythm and instinctive grace. He is virile, yet mannerly, as sweet of temper as he is quick to anger, and his wary eyes dart from foe to friend with the swiftness of thought...
...horribly shy. He keeps a stiff upper lip about his strange afflictions, even when his grimy world is coming apart. He has traditional British hobbies-serving on a Good Neighbours Club, writing Keep Britain Tidy letters to the local papers, collecting back numbers of boys' magazines like Gem and Magnet through which he vicariously enjoys upper-class memories of "uncles with fivers, tuck shops, and inky fags." Acting as a rent collector in a shabby new housing development, he dreams of spending a week amid the iniquities of Hamburg's sex-riddled Reeperbahn. Yearning for some power...
Sekler criticized the "arbitrariness" of much University architecture. "Why does this building look the way it does except that maybe it's pretty?" Ackerman tied this to the tendency of modern architects to "strive for the creation of the isolated gem...
...were thoroughly familiar with the crater and its vicinity; Greenacre could hardly believe his eyes when he saw two bright red spots looming to the northwest and a third just inside the crater's rim. "I had the impression that I was looking into a large, polished gem ruby," he says...
...into him as skillfully as he digs into the soil of the Holy Land. And you produced a gem...