Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dramatic. There are no longer any lead-shielded, white-painted Sherman tanks lumbering about the crater. The great sheet of crackly "trinitite" (glassy melted soil) that looked like a scummy green lake has largely disintegrated; only a faint green ghost of it remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen a few twisted bits of metal and the reinforced concrete foundations of the tall steel tower that the bomb blew away as vapor...
Manhattan's skyline, he wrote, consisted of "high skyscrapers and the glitter of electric advertising . . . intended to daze the unprepared visitor and muddle his ideas." Manhattan's culture provided "pseudoscientific pamphlets decorated with a standard cover: a painted man indecently kissing a woman." Even the kids were corrupt. "Steel handcuffs for small children," he reported, "attracted our attention in a toyshop...
Lady pictures the how of a gambler's obsession with a good deal of plausibility. Especially skillful are Barbara Stanwyck's hard-breathing, glitter-eyed performance at the gaming tables, and Russell Metty's feverish camera work in & out of the neon-lighted dens of Las Vegas. The story gets added strength from Stephen McNally's interpretation of a gambler who, for once, appears to be an intelligent character...
...Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, driving off in a staff car during the Italian campaign, and giving the camera a jolly-good-fellow grin. But at that instant the sun strikes the gold knob of his baton, and flashes across his features a demoniac glitter...
Merlin Aylesworth, first president of NBC and now an adman, had just published his own warning that radio was doomed. He predicted that radio, as the U.S. now knows it, will be wiped out by TV within three years. Speaking to the convention in the gilt and glitter of the Stevens' ballroom, FCCommissioner Wayne Coy concurred. "The essential difference between Mr. Aylesworth and me is one of time," said Coy. "His three years seems much too short...