Word: gleaming
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Bound to Rise. Away from the boulevards and the showcases lurks old Guadalajara, with adobe slums, iron-grilled balconies and carriage-width streets. Swarming families live on tortillas and cheap pulque; rack-ribbed dogs nose through decaying garbage. But even here the gaudy gleam of a twirling hula hoop around the waist of a barefoot child serves notice that the old standstill Mexico of mañana and the travel posters is scrambling toward prosperity...
...exacted taut performances from the 12-meter U.S. yachts in the second series of trials for the role of defender in September's battle for the America's Cup. But while Sceptre, the British challenger, nimbly outran its own trial horse (a U.S. 12-meter named Gleam), the U.S. contenders knocked one another off in a bewildering series of form reversals. At week's end only Easterner looked a loser. Still in the running: Skipper Briggs Cunningham's Columbia, Arthur Knapp Jr.'s Weatherly, Donald Matthews' 19-year...
...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...