Word: gleamingly
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...copy of a Crain's New York Business article listing the Trump Organization as by far the largest privately held company in the metro area. He keeps a stack of the articles on his desk as you might a dish of mints. Long before Paris Hilton was a gleam in an infrared camera's eye, Trump lived by the dictum that you can never be too rich or too exposed to the media. And, he says, he was attracted by the "educational" aspects of The Apprentice...
This time of year, Harvard Yard is covered in stately snow drifts, and the afternoon light makes the steeple on Mem Church gleam against blue winter skies. Blankets of lights hang above Mass. Ave. like starry spider webs. Harvard students, too smart to study, take their dining hall trays for rides down the steps of Widener...
...perhaps I was put off by the zealous gleam I saw in the eyes of those who told me I “had to hear this song” and threw on “Karma Police.” Prophets have a tough time of it, particularly when they run into rival sects—mine was U2 at the time...
...another band. And you will remember these words, and gnash your teeth as you realize that you will never be able to make the others see what you mean when you say that this is the greatest music in the world. But look carefully and you may catch that gleam in a stranger’s eye that marks them...
...hard to pinpoint exactly where this gleam comes from. Frontman Halstead’s vocals are as whisperingly fragile as on his recent solo album, Sleeping on Roads. The instrumentation is a sort of chamber country affair, with pedal steel and keyboards filling out the central piano and guitar. The key may be the inspired use of space—the music never builds to more than a jaunty bounce (as on “Billy Oddity”). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over...