Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept the furnace roaring for days and finally set the roof on fire. Now when a fire breaks out in a sculptor's studio, it is more likely to be caused by an unwatched oxyacetylene torch. The material may still be bronze, but there is an added glitter of stainless steel, phosphor or chrome. The great difference is that Cellini produced in bronze a famous Perseus; today's sculptors too often end up with a glittering space divider or macabre wall hanging. Startling and even elegant as such modern objects can be (see color pages), they tend more...
...vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter of the perennial Wild West show, is the immortal theme of every hero myth: man's endless search for the meaning of his life...
...actors give considerably better than they get. Eartha Kitt is Anna, and her extraordinary animal glitter makes her histrionic limitations irrelevant. Sammy Davis Jr. is Danny, the oversexed sailor, and there are at least three major scenes in which Sammy, with superhuman energy, takes over the screen like a blackface Bugs Bunny...
...along with Gielgud's mastery of his material is his absorption in his subject-the sense, toward Shakespeare, of something loved and lifelong. The effect that such a recital seems to promise most, a flashing virtuosity, is what matters least. The essence of the evening is not glitter but glow...
Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A polished biography of an un cut gem of a woman, Sir Winston's ancestress, Sarah Churchill, who helped make the 18th century glitter...