Word: gloss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin and will not end in New York. "Every intelligent painter," he wrote in 1951, "carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says a gloss...
...shouldn't matter if I tell you that Gary, inspired to heights of asceticism by Coach Creed's commendation of humiliation of the flesh, comes very close to death by self-starvation at season's end. And there the novel ends, an enticing, finely ironic, but unfinished gloss to Eliot's lines on the end of the world...
This indicates the main weakness of the book, which is not in the guidelines but in the philosophy behind them. In their endless series of distinctions, the authors gloss over the crucial one-that between universities and other institutional investors. The millions in university endowments, unlike those of mutual funds and insurance companies, carry with them the assumption that they are being used to serve the public good; it is on the basis of this assumption that they were collected, and, in fact, that the University remains open. The humanitarian assumptions that are supposed to thrive in the "academic context...
...given day "more people than Adam Powell. A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, and Roy Wilkins put together," the white news media largely ignored Malcolm and as a result there is little film footage available on Malcolm's life. The lack of material causes the film to gloss over many of the subtler changes that Malcolm underwent during his life. The five or six stages that Malcolm went through in formulating his final philosophy are boiled down to two or three. But given the constraints under which the filmmakers had to work, they've put together a documentary that...
This is not to say that the big, old-fashioned musical is irrevocably doomed, but it must have a singular mood, manner and meaning all its own. Otherwise, all that remains, as Sugar indicates, is a sterile display of high-gloss techniques. · T.E. Kalem