Word: gleaming
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...then - always sparingly, and never with the self-indulgence common to word-drunk young novelists - the images thicken to a rich impressionism. Danner, at seven, falling asleep and hearing the half-understood noises of her parents' lovemaking, fantasizes about horses that "are dark like blood and gleam with a black sheen; the animals swim hard in the air to get higher, and Danner aches to stay with them ... In the dream it is the horse pressed against her, the rhythmic pumping of the forelegs as the animal climbs, the lather and the smell; the smell that comes in waves...
...Stagg had warned that a gale would strike on June 5, and Eisenhower had reluctantly ordered a 24-hour postponement of Dday. The first troopships, already at sea, had to be called back. But now that the storm was actually upon them, Stagg offered what he called "a gleam of hope for you, sir." The next day, June 6, there would be some clearing of the skies, a break of perhaps 36 hours, no more. The cloud ceiling over the Normandy beaches would be about 3,000 feet, the waves only about three feet high...
...rattling fall and exasperated by the collapse of the special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam of all winning trainers, "I thought he was a cinch, anyway." A son of 1977 Triple Crown Champion Seattle Slew, Swale favors that great dark...
...Books; ($60) is a grand but personal tour of these and all the other Smithsonian collections, including such exotic arrays as the Freer Gallery's elegant Orientalia and the rich lode of artifacts in the Museum of African Art. It is sobering to realize that the treasures that gleam from these 470 pages are a mere sample of the national attic's contents...
...gallon of o.j. Boutiques are ripe for window-shopping, but what if you really need to buy clothes? Gentrification is usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork precision...