Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film is studded with real moments. Scenarios are deceitful, improvization honest. Concomitantly, improvization--the actors go through a scene line for line, then throw away their scripts and play the situation out of their heads--is fumbly, halting, erratic. Nobody Waved Goodbye has less gloss than Jake Wirth's floor. It's a sort of artistic Candid Camera, a really terrific home movie...
...narrative of his eighth novel, ostensibly the reminiscences of an old Anglo-Norwegian attempting in the year 1999 to recapture and finally comprehend the essence of a brother who died in 1936. Lest the reader fail to appreciate Toynbee's poetic virtuosity, Toynbee provides a pretentious introductory gloss that is almost a recipe. Take "first a very long and discursive line of anything between 25 and 35 syllables (but never either more or less), followed by two lines of five stressed syllables each." The first line must be finely chopped until "purely descriptive and richly adjectival," the second "pared...
...Westerners, the Hindu mind often seems like that frustrating garden in Through the Looking-Gloss, which Alice couldn't penetrate because even the most promising path "gave a sudden twist and shook itself" and led her right back to the door. As Alice learned, the only way in is to go blithely in the opposite direction. The reader who does the same may get some fun and a certain impalpable sense of enlightenment from Indian Author Raja Rao's charming, puzzling tale. The simple surface of the book is the story of a clerk in an Indian village...
...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...
Burning Bush. By the time he reached the Senate in 1948, after a run-off primary that he won by a bitterly disputed margin of 87 votes out of 988,295 cast, Johnson had polished his political talents to a high gloss. He was Democratic whip in two years, minority leader in four. When the G.O.P. lost both houses of Congress in the 1954 midterm election, he became, at 46, the youngest majority leader ever...