Word: gleamingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast--he sets them up expertly, so that their full abberation can be appreciated. David Levine as the Marquis de Sade speaks in such a laggardly, elephantine voice that some of his more intelligent soliloquies of de Sade's perversions sound unconvincing. He lacks the intensity and the wicked gleam in his eye necessary to persuade us he believes in the ideology of pain he espouses. There is a moment of redemption, however, when, shirtless, he subjects himself to a beating while the prisoners thump the floor methodically in a blood-thirsty crescendo. Then, physically, we feel his lust...
Kennedy remembered that Wenner "had a sort of anarchist gleam in his eye, which distinguished him from a lot ofthe people my mother introduced...
...just seemed too overwhelming -- considering that to balance the greed of the '80s, commuters would have had to strip the very coats from their backs and donate them to unwashed vagrants, along with the keys to their country homes. So the altruism trend, along with the angels, remains a gleam in a trend watcher...
...other thing--Aspen is a beautiful town. At night, the snow and icicles glisten and gleam. The houses precariously perched on nearby Red Mountain look like jewels. And, on a clear night, it's not just the streets of Aspen that are filled with stars--the sky more than holds...
...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...