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...from the U.S.S.R., four dramas make their first appearance in English, translated by the author's son Dmitri. All are adjectival, although an occasional verb wriggles by to enliven the proceedings. All glisten with the celebrated Nabokovian cunning; all are souvenirs of the post-revolutionary epoch when, in some violent reversal of fairy-tale tradition, Russian aristocrats popped up in Europe as commoners, driving taxis, hiring on as movie extras and waiting on tables...
Regan seems invigorated by the new challenge. His oxfords glisten with the kind of shine only a former Marine lieutenant colonel can give them. He's charging uphill, the way he did at Okinawa. "No school solutions here," he has muttered to intimates in the White House, invoking a Marine battlefield lament when they faced situations never covered in training. "Some say I can't really succeed in this political environment, and maybe they are right," he once mused. He does not believe that at all. He'll win, or fall among piled-up corpses...
...familiar enough, in movies from The Graduate to Diner, to constitute a new American genre. But whenever Baby, It's You starts to become rambling or folkloric, Sayles and his charming young actors find a way to twist or energize the clichés. You can catch a glisten of moisture in the eye of an "easy," misused girl who's too proud to cry; or contemplate Jill's half-embarrassed smile when she goes dancing cheek to Sheik; or fall in with the gliding camera that circles the young lovers during their first sexy kiss. Sayles...
...lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin S. Cobb described the fight fan: "He is a soft-fleshed, hard-faced person who keeps his own pelt safe from the bruises, but whose eyes glisten and whose hackles lift at the prospect of seeing someone else whipped to a souffle...
...contender with an unknown wallop, and they are fighting each other this Friday night in a small ring out behind a large gambling lor for $20 million. Including ancillary payoffs, there may be as much as $50 million involved all around. The eyes of 32,000 people will glisten in the ring lights, and the blood of 2.5 million others will heat up in closed-circuit theaters, and much of the country, and some of the world, will be waiting to find out several things: whether Holmes, 32, was too old or Cooney, 25, too young. Whether the champion turned...