Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience sits in darkness while voices screech Stalinist slogans over a loudspeaker. Then an imposing photo of Stalin is projected onto a black curtain. Finally, a spotlight sweeps over the audience, stopping now and then to hold first one person, then another and another in its sudden white glare...
...media glare will mean little unless Atwater can show the Black community that he's really offering it something worth a second look. So far, events have shown that Atwater hasn't been too convincing...
...photos. As she started down, she realized her unprotected eyes were going snow blind. What she did not realize was that she had run out of oxygen. And on a steep slope just below the summit, she leaned over to try to see a foothold through the blazing retinal glare. The empty oxygen tank overbalanced her. She somersaulted downward...
...under the glare of investigations, Beebe's roof began to cave in. He was convicted in 1985 of defrauding the Small Business Administration on a loan it made to finance a nursing home from which Beebe allegedly profited. Beebe was sentenced to perform community service, while some of his associates were acquitted. Two years later, the Government accused him of fraud for making loans to a quarter-horse breeder with whom Beebe allegedly held an interest in a tax-shelter scheme. After the 1987 mistrial, Beebe pleaded guilty last year to the two fraud counts...
Like many skilled writers, she sacrifices balance for effects. This is acceptable, even necessary, in fiction. But in a memoir whose purpose is to expose one's own family in the glare of a social ideology, the practice seems simplistic and self-serving. There is, for example, her use of the familiar tale about the founding of the Bingham fortune. Grandfather Robert, "the Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal...