Word: glistens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widower Mr. McCleavey in his own home by searching where and when he pleases, and threatening to cut off the water supply. When Anthony Mowbray, heavily made up as the old McCleavey, asks Truscott by what right he does all this, Russo lifts his eyes with a proud glisten of authority and tells the man to make things easier by not asking questions. McCleavey, the only real or proximate innocent in the whole lot, get arrested at the end of the play through connivance of his son, his fiance and-yes-Truscott. McCleavey has run for the police...
...course, the film is a phenomenon ?there has been nothing like it in a generation. And nothing like its star, Ali MacGraw, to remind the world of the kind of stars that used to glisten in Hollywood...
...Bedford-Stuyvesant resemble those along Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh and 14th Street in Washington. Each of the half-forgotten neighborhoods has a bombed-out, end-of-a-war appearance; about all of them lingers the stale odor of moldering plaster and rotting wood. Peeling paint is everywhere; streets glisten with shards of glass from broken windows. Front doors have been ripped from their hinges, and human excrement often litters the stairwells. Interior partitions are punched through, floors broken up and obscene pictures scrawled on the walls. Yet in their essential structure, the hulks are often solid and no more unattractively...