Word: glittering
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...also helped to bankroll a Texan named Sammy Collins (TIME, Nov. 9, 1962), who is digging diamonds from under the sea off the coast of southwest Africa. But no dealer fears that production will ever rise high enough to hold down prices or remove any of the glitter from a girl's-and a dealer's-best friend...
...Cantwell (Cliff Robertson), Russell's opponent, plays dirty, and most of the film concerns Russell's attempt to decide whether he should use Cantwell's own methods to fight back. The personal battle is played against the noise and glitter of a wide-open convention, done up for the screen with superb realism...
...trips turned into hour-long undertakings, and it was always rush hour in this siesta city, where people normally go home to celebrate the three-hour lunch. Business suffered, and so did social life; instead of zipping across Rome in their Ferraris to make three parties a night, the glitter set began going only to parties in the immediate neighborhood. Last week Rome was incredulously experiencing something nobody thought would ever happen again-traffic was moving...
...speeches gave Maxim Gorky the impression of the "cold glitter of steel shavings," from which arose "with amazing simplicity the perfectly fashioned figure of truth." Even when they knew that he was lying, many men implicitly believed Lenin. He stunned his followers when he denounced the Kerensky government as the bourgeois enemy and vowed to bring it down. Then Lenin proceeded to demonstrate "the fine art of insurrection...
Dallas has more glitter than Houston. As the regional headquarters for scores of national corporations, its offices and light industry stretch for miles in spanking new modernistic structures. Industrial areas have such street names as "Dividend," "Profit," and "Currency." The city spurted when East Texas oilfields came in and farsighted local bankers had the courage to lend money on the basis of oil still below ground. Now, in its frantic effort to keep up with Houston, it is building two 50-story office buildings-mostly, it seems, because Houston has the tallest west of the Mississippi in the 44-story...