Word: gleaming
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...Gertrud, made in 1964, is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam like gold with a bit of polishing...
...about those of his characters, a celebrity who laughs at the thought of being one. He is somewhat of a modern-day Mr. Bennet with his mixture of "quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice." Nothing escapes his easy wit -- the world, his critics, himself. There is a definite gleam in his eyes when he speaks of his bad reviews. "They were ferocious in Women's Wear Daily. It ended up by saying something like 'the question is why Mr. Alfred chose to produce this play. We don't know, but let us forgive and by all means forget...
...lights in the bars on Tu Do Street in downtown Saigon gleam through the moist monsoon night until the capital's 11 p.m. curfew. But a scant ten miles away on Saigon's rural edges, the huts grow dark with the dusk. Lights are as likely to attract a Viet Cong bullet as a mosquito. Their backs to the glow from the city, South Vietnamese troops and their U.S. advisers settle back for a long night of watching-and, above all, listening. For the perimeter surrounding the 400 square miles of Gia Dinh province, which includes Saigon...
...James Hart and Thomas Moran. Today the Athenaeum remains unchanged. The gaslight chandeliers have been electrified, the timeless hush is occasionally broken by construction next door. But the deep-set windows admit the weak northern light just as they did nearly a century ago; the oak and walnut floors gleam from years of polishing. And the statuary from Italy, along with the period paintings from the U.S., still mirrors the comfortable Victorian world of a prosperous Vermont manufacturer...
...school started as a gleam in its mother's eye. Two decades ago, tiny Bonnie Cone, a math teacher hardly taller than a blackboard pointer, began directing a program of college extension courses for ex-G.I.s, using what had been the lost-and-found department of a Charlotte, N.C., high school. This month the school that grew from there, with Miss Bonnie pushing it all the way, was designated the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the juridical coequal of the state university branches at Chapel Hill, Greensboro and Raleigh...