Word: glittering
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...VEGAS BOOM is losing some of its glitter. High entertainment costs (up to $50,000 weekly for a top star) and disappointing business have forced the $5,000,000 Royal Nevada to shut down, the second hotel to fold in three months. One other, the Dunes, reports financial troubles, while three more new hotels abuilding-the Tropicana, Lady Luck and Stardust-are still not finished...
Beneath all the glitter, Curtice is regarded by friends as essentially still the small-town boy who came out of Petrieville, Mich. He likes to watch the fights and The $64,000 Question on television, read the papers, hunt, watch the Detroit Tigers (the night games only). He puffs casually on Luckies, likes his Scotch and soda strong and unstirred. His idea of Saturday fun in Flint is a run through the Buick plant in the morning and a poker game with his City Club cronies in the afternoon. He lives in a relatively modest red brick corner house, with...
...becoming a drama critic," fired back Shaw in his first letter. "It happens by accident." The accident never happened to Golding Bright, but the accidental correspondence lingered on for 34 years. Now published for the first time, it consists more of literary shavings than true Shavian glitter. Shaw gave his advice off the top of his head, but since there was more top to the G.B.S. head than most, his advice, aside from a few personal quirks, is better than most. Samples...
...Hollywood since the late Marie Dressier delicately tucked a pint of hooch in her grandmotherly bosom. One moment Actress Magnani comes lurching on-camera as shapeless as a burlap bag full of cantaloupes; the next she is sleazing through the dusk in black lace with the toothsome glitter of a backstreet-walker in Naples. And she battles her way into a girdle of yesteryear with all the fury and desperation of the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Bunker Hill, somehow imparting to her defeat some of the sorrowful majesty of a historical debacle...
...resort of Blackpool in industrial Lancashire, Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. Malik found an unlikely path to the heart of the British masses. He pulled a silver-handled switch, turning on 450,000 colored lights that run for seven miles and cause illuminated tableaux, moving figures and patriotic portraits to glitter brilliantly against a background of 50 miles of electric bulbs. The lights are the pride of the working class of Lancashire, and the wily Soviet ambassador praised lights, people, town, county, and even allowed that the celebration was not unlike certain Soviet celebrations, before crying, "Long live light...