Word: gleaming
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...Home reflects character. The Kennedys' walls and furniture gleam with the silver-framed pageant of their photogenic tribal progress. Ronald Reagan's weight room in the White House seemed wistfully egotistical, decorated on the theme of himself, with movie posters of himself and the TIME Man of the Year cover illustration of himself. Richard Nixon wanted to outfit his White House guard in elaborate Graustarkian uniforms, a tinhorn spectacle of power, but was embarrassed out of the idea. Patton, too, was a great one for designing gaudy special uniforms for himself and his troops. George C. Scott's "Patton...
Still, more than two months ago, when the Bush-Cheney administration was still but a gleam in William Rehnquist's eye, we opened our hearts, and we allowed ourselves to believe. Seeking only to serve our country, we went to the Bush-Cheney transition web site and giddily sent you our résumés. We had but one small expectation: That someone, somewhere, in that vast transition team of yours would take the time to glance over the record of our professional lives before rejecting...
...gems go, it wasn't much, just a dustlike grain of zircon. But the tiny crystal put a gleam in scientific eyes last week. Some 400 million years older than any previously discovered terrestrial rock, it could rewrite Earth's history--upsetting the timetable for the appearance of oceans and continents, challenging ideas about the formation of the moon and, most important, pushing back by several hundred million years the genesis of life...
...frenzy to string him up, Nader said, only one person will have cost Gore the election if he loses it: Gore himself. Nader wondered, with a gleam in his eye that has begun to scare people, why no one is asking the Vice President why he cost Ralph Nader the election...
...audience couldn't get enough of Bartoli, and she came back for no less than five encores, finally having to physically drag her musicians off the stage by force. But before her last encore song, Bartoli, with a knowing gleam in her eye, leaned out to the audience, asking "un altri...