Word: gleamingly
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...notables--not just the prosperous Tories but dissenters like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere--was more like some French neoclassical painting than like English portraiture of the time. His clients liked Copley in part because everything in his work, from a nailhead in a chair to the exact gleam on red mahogany, was earnestly weighed and measured. In his candor and curiosity, he refused to edit out the warts and wens, the pinched New England lips or even (as several portraits show) the pockmarks that were a common disfigurement in an age before vaccination. Eighteenth century America did not have...
...fairness, I can see where Guinness is coming from. He has had a truly remarkable film career, and was already a much admired star when Star Wars was not even a gleam in Lucas's eye. His portrayal of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he was awarded a Best Actor Oscar, stands as one of the truly great performances in cinema, and his work in films as diverse as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Cromwell (a personal favorite) is outstanding. But in my mind's eye he will always be dueling Darth Vader...
...world of high technology, a great product, a remarkable corporate transformation and market acceptance could in fact be an epitaph. The Next Big Thing, just a gleam in some undergraduate's eye today, could put your company out of business tomorrow. Andy Grove, the Intel CEO who led his microprocessor company through a series of similarly wrenching changes a decade ago, has distilled the essence of competing in a high-tech world down to a single sentence: "Only the paranoid survive." He's right. Uncertainty is the watchword of the new digital age. That's why Microsoft is throwing everything...
...always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness. As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond a doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. They make Tin Cup rattle very merrily...
...when Roy has a chance to beat his slick and arrogant, lifelong rival (Don Johnson), is the kind of bad, dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life. "As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness," says TIME's Richard Schickel As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. They make 'Tin Cup' rattle very...