Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEVERED HEAD wittily tucks three men and three women into bed in a variety of heterosexual combinations. A superb cast gives this British comedy high glee and high gloss without blinding playgoers to its underlying moral and mythical ambiguity...
...honest, both with himself and with the world around him. Seeing behind the masks which people assume as their identities, he realized, that life in all its mocking irony, inevitably takes on a stage-like quality. Beckmann lived at a time when the facade of "civil-ization"--the protective gloss which disguises man's nature--was blasted into pieces of human flesh by World War I. Beckmann suffered through the war, on the front as a hospital corpsman, and later in a hospital for two years, recovering from a nervous collapse. For Beckmann, the war was a rehearsal...
...your editorial you have sufficiently identified Keating with "homegrown mediocrity" and Kennedy with "imported excellence." Those identifications are, in fact, quite unfair. You mention Kennedy's intemperate pursuit of James Hoffa, and his sponsorship (now withdrawn) of a distasteful wiretapping bill: are these actions consonant with excellence? You gloss over his involvement with the New York City bosses: many other observers, however, have been very disappointed that no outright repudiation of bossism has been made. This situation smacks more of expediency than excellence. You state that "In no way has he (Kennedy) reneged... on his promise (to fight for reform...
Manufacturers make synthetics in various thicknesses equivalent to those of watercolors, gouache and oils. Matte and gloss media are available to impart every kind of surface finish, from chalky pastels and flat tempera to buttery oil glazes. Plastics can be thickened to print graphics or molded into free-standing sculpture. Moreover, under laboratory tests equivalent to 45 years of direct sunlight, the new paints have proved virtually fadeproof. Indeed, like every other technical innovation in the history of painting, the synthetics may well lead artists to explore, experiment and discover new forms and techniques as enduring as the paints themselves...
...commentary on the text, variants of the text, and the difficulties of translation; 2) an exhaustive, line-by-line digression from this commentary, of which an elegant three-page defense of pedantry is typical; 3) a complete course in Russian and English prosody; 4) a learned if somewhat irritable gloss on 19th century literature; 5) a great deal of biographical information about Pushkin, which would be more helpful if it were collected in one chunk, not squirreled about the entire work; and 6) repeated masterly demonstrations of the art of literary insult. Dostoevsky, for instance, is described as "a much...