Word: glaring
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Ever since she was named Miss America in 1945, Bess Myerson has been accustomed to the flattering spotlight, not the glare of harsh headlines. But now even her friend New York City Mayor Ed Koch concedes that Myerson has % "fallen from grace." Her slide began earlier this year, when she stepped down from her post as the city's commissioner of cultural affairs after her boyfriend, Building Contractor Carl Capasso, was indicted on federal tax- evasion charges. Myerson hit bottom last week when Koch released classified details of an official investigation charging that she had improperly influenced Judge Hortense Gabel...
Under the glare of television lights in the Rayburn Office Building, the dour former Marine described himself as a loyal public servant who became an architect of policies he did not always believe in. Yet time and again he defended the President while blaming himself for the questionable efforts to support the contras. "President Reagan's motives and direction to his subordinates throughout this enterprise has always been in keeping with the law and national values," McFarlane asserted. "I don't think he is at fault here, and if anybody...
...running for President has a weekend off. He spends part of it entertaining a part-time actress from Miami. A newspaper stakes out his home, reports his interlude, and overnight his private life turns into a public obsession. In the relentless glare of the cameras, he testily denies that he had a sexual affair with the woman and bristles over questions about adultery. His popularity slides. Stories surface of another liaison. The candidate, the clear front runner for the Democratic nomination, describes himself as a hunted quarry and withdraws from the field, denouncing the political process...
...these creatures are not immune to their own venom. Howard Davies' direction, unobtrusive until the marquise declares war on her erstwhile sparring partner, fills the play's final minutes with haze and glare and an eerie, slow-motion duel. The end brings wholly unanticipated griefs to the apparent survivors. Yet there is no comforting afterglow of justice or even vengeance -- only the acrid residue of wanton agony...
...camera has the votes. Don't stare at the witness; even if he is a constituent, he's not likely to be a happy one. Play to the TV audience instead. Democratic Media Consultant Frank Greer suggests that you periodically turn to glare at the cameras and say, "But Colonel North, the American people want answers...