Word: gloss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metal Eaters." Similarly, Kosygin's dry statistics stripped much of the gloss from Brezhnev's promise that Russian consumer needs would be "more fully met." It will take until 1975 before 64% of Soviet families have refrigerators (compared with 32% today) and 72% have television sets and washing machines. That would be a considerable improvement, even if all goes according to plan-which has not happened in the past. But it still means that four years from now, more than a quarter of all families will still be without such appliances...
Anyway. The magazine materialized last June. It's called Rags. A cheap number-40c-and a monthly, printed on plain of newsprint, it's unabashedly trying to make it just like a Rolling Stone. "As befits its name, Rags eschews the gloss of traditional fashion books," reports shiny-panted Time. Which is to suggest, perhaps unfairly, that in rejecting the slick road to fashion, Rags and Rolling Stone may have inadvertently established a duller shade of slick themselves...
Blitzstein, who taught at the Downtown School in New York during the thirties with none other than Elie Siegmeister and Hans Eisler as colleagues, inspired Lehrman to take a new look at Brecht's 1948 didactic play about the Paris Commune-or, more precisely, Blitzstein with an interpretational gloss thrown on his work by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein in 1940 presented a production at Sanders of Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Bernstein adopted a "cantata form, from the piano." Lehrman, himself the director of a 1969 Cradle Will Rock production, explained in a 1970 essay about Blitzstein. This is "exactly...
...past, about the worst the horses were known to suffer was poor teeth -too many sugar cubes from admiring children-and most reached the age of 20 before going to the slaughterhouse. But of late, said Löwenbräu's Heinz Moelter, "their fur lost its gloss, their eyes their shine, and their pulling power declined." Recently, Munich's local Animal Protection Society confirmed what the brewery had suspected. "They informed us that permitting the animals to continue working in Munich's poisonous atmosphere amounted to sheer cruelty," said Moelter. "Significantly, they didn...
Republican entertaining, however, is not always polished to a high gloss of sophistication. For example, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel and his Alaska-born wife Ermalee gave a dinner for some of the stars who performed last week in the invitation-only gala at Ford's Theater. The piece de resistance was a rack of lamb, cooked by Wally Hickel himself on his indoor gas grill. When the grill developed a small but intractable fire, a discreet call was made to the fire department, asking for the help of just one fireman, who was to be smuggled quietly into...