Word: glimmering
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...Claude Goretta's The Lacemaker, has a face you might pass a hundred times without noticing, only to discover on the hundredth-and-first passing that it is indeed beautiful. Simple in feature and freckled, the face must be studied carefully before you begin to discern a hesitant glimmer in the eye and a warmth in the smile. You could call it childlike, but there is a certain melancholy under the surface...
Even to the untrained eye, it must be clear that the true vanner, the compleat vanner, the certifiable vanaddict, is up to much more than has yet been figured out. But what? It may be that a clue lurks in some of the little-noticed paradoxes that glimmer on the very surface of the rites of vanning. One of these is that, in essence, to van is to get away from it all while going to great lengths to take it all with you. Another can be glimpsed in the strange fact that the vanner drives long distances to destinations...
...sometimes high in Panama, Greene concludes--at least when the jungle inhabitants sing of driving the Zonians into the Atlantic, "Where the sharks can eat mucho Yanqui, much Yanqui." Yet underneath Greene touches a nausea, a festering need to strike out--if nothing more, just to keep alive a glimmer of Latin pride...
...recent history. Although his Memoirs end, as did his life, with the recognition of yet another tragedy, Neruda, who found hope in the past, would have realized that American dollars and cruel, powerhungry generals can not permanently retard progress toward a more just world. He always saw the glimmer of a final victory and allowed the world to see it as well when it acknowledged his work and his struggle in the 1971 Stockholm ceremonies. In his speech to the world he said...
...easy go fashion," he said. For a young pipeline worker to have a sense of value for a car, a stereo set, or for money itself is difficult when a couple of months on the job can replace almost anything that is lost, destroyed, or that loses its initial glimmer...