Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Audience has expanded to six times the old size, revamped its format, and added fiction, feature articles, and artwork. Not even the night people can deny that the magazine is more attractive, what with a color cover and offices in New York and Los Angeles. But that small gleam in the yellow eye we used to call hope--for undergraduate literature outside the Advocate's erudite stasis--is conspicuously missing in the summer volume of the new Audience. The editors choose to become another little magazine, to be judged on that dubious basis...
...Confederacy: "More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull grey masses deploy, man touching man, rank pressing rank, and line supporting line. The red flags wave, their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, in perfect order, without impediment of ditch, or wall or stream, over ridge and slope, through orchard and meadow, and cornfield, magnificent, grim, irresistible...
...survive disillusioning bursts of canned applause, poorly spliced film, a faulty sound-track, paper mache countryside, and a disconcerting propensity on the part of the cast to get that gleam of timeless monument as they're about to mumble a famous passage...
...herds to sell, and prices will then start to soften. But the price-pushing demand for beef will probably continue to outpace supply for a long while. The Agriculture Department figures that beef production will not rise much until the 19605. Reason: it takes about three years before the gleam in the bull's eye is turned into steak on the table...
...Ingres, then 72, interrupt the honeymoon of his second marriage to complete the painting. Every line of the light blue silk dress, each tuck in the dark blue chair covering, every fold of the yellow stole is lovingly recorded. The play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene brow, aristocratic nose and demure mouth. Finished, it met Ingres...