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When asked about charges that he has been reshaping some of his positions, Goldwater (who is, as a matter of fact, not much more and not much less inconsistent than most politicians who get that presidential gleam in their eye) chuckled happily. If nothing else, he said, his present presidential-race prominence had set a lot of people to scouring his past books and speeches in search of inconsistencies. "By looking up what I have been saying, they are beginning to understand my position...
...season's first week gave Adler more reason than ever to believe the testimonials to his genius that gleam down on him from the walls of his office. Price, Regina Resnik and Giorgio Tozzi gave him an excellent opening night and Sutherland's Sonnambula won love-letter reviews. There was a sparkling new production of The Barber of Seville, and a Mefistofele in which dancers and chorus kindled each other to spectacular performances on sets that sometimes looked like paintings by Tintoretto. San Francisco was seeing some of the best-produced opera the American season can expect...
...most unpopular point on the triangle is Brasilia, which only six years ago was nothing but wilderness and a gleam in the eye of then President Kubitschek. Now it is a city of architectural splendor and 300,000 people, most of whom would rather be somewhere else. Housing is scarce, and so is night life. About one-third of the 475 Congressmen and Senators still maintain homes in Rio, a few war ministry bureaucrats even commute daily from Rio, and the foreign ministry, still based in Rio, keeps only a handful of clerks in Brasilia...
Lest the tumbrels gleam too bloody...
...observers were stealing no secrets; they were checking on their own work. The bright gleam of infra-red light that they had seen through the snooperscope bore out their suspicion that they had stumbled on a new and revolutionary kind of communication device...