Word: gleam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Living Legend. Picasso comes down - stocky, spry, bronzed as a piece of sculpture. At 75 he is a living legend and he knows it; his dark brown eyes gleam as they sweep the room in a commanding glance. He picks up a black Spanish cape from a pile of clothes, flings it around his shoulders with the lordly grace of a matador, tops it off with a Spanish hat from the pile. " Magnifique , this material," he cries. "It is not only elegant, but it keeps you warm." Next thing the visitor knows, Picasso is romping on the lawn with...
...Dave Beck has increased the assets of the international union by $9,000,000 since he became president." In an analytic mood, an old Beck associate says: "When Dave talks about money, it's like some other guy talking about a beautiful broad -he gets a gleam in his eye. The only pinup in Beck's mind is that good green stuff with numbers...
...Winston cigarette pitch (they "taste good like a cigarette should'') has effectively assassinated the conjunction as. The singing commercial has popularized so many defective rhymes (gleam with sheen, time with fine, gasoline with supreme] that Fadiman fears the blunting of the simple capacity to match the sound of one word with another. Other commercials tell "how to use eyebrow pencil so it looks natural" or implore the viewer to "have a Camel. They really...
...last row, third balcony, that the lady is pregnant. But what is this dark drive that possesses her? With somnambulistic stare she crosses to the kitchen counter. She reaches for a knife-and then for the bread and peanut butter. She raises the sandwich to her mouth, hesitates. A gleam of madness flickers in her eye. She takes out an onion...
...book's most infuriating passage, he describe pragmatically the superiority of the American bathroom to the Gothic cathedral as a mental stimulus: "But the bathroom, too, shelters the spirit, it tranquillizes and reassures, in surroundings of a celestial Whiteness, where the pipes and the faucets gleam and the mirror makes another liquid surface, which will render you, shaved, rubbed and brushed, a nobler and more winning appearance... It encourages self-dependence and prepares one to face the world, fortified, firm on one's feet, serene and with a mind like a diamond." There are two possible reactions of disgust...