Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience for the Games promises to be up a bit: 510,000 in 1932, more than 2 billion now. Saturday's show was brighter, brassier. Still the basic ceremony held its ground. All the excitement generated by seeing the stairway ascend to the Coliseum torch was merely a gloss on the fact that the torch was lighted. Everything was startling, but the same. Tunes were played. The kids marched in and out. Odd to think that 52 years from now people may look back and remark with deep wisdom: How naive they were. How mindless...
...illustrate the seamy underside of Washington rather than Hollywood--nobody would have said anything. The backroom deals, the corruption, the slime of Captial Hill, i.e., the stuff that made Woodward big-time--that's okay for public consumption, the more so since Woodward and sidekick Carl Bernstein took that gloss off politicos for good with their reporting on Watergate in the early 1970s...
...reliable bet. Bentsen, 63, is a tried-and-true organization man and very conservative for a Democrat: the liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a 40 rating, which is in the Republican range. Indeed, Bentsen's political differences with Mondale may be too big to gloss over gracefully. His views on U.S. policy in Central America-he has supported CIA aid for the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua and does not rule out U.S. combat intervention in El Salvador-are not unlike the Reagan Administration...
...weeks after Betty Gloss won $6 million in the Illinois lottery last October, a police officer carrying a birth certificate visited the home of the winner and her husband Arthur. "I'm your son," the officer said to Mr. Gloss. "I'm Arthur Gloss Jr." As a bonus to the Glosses' monetary bonanza, the publicity from winning the lottery reunited Arthur Gloss with his three sons from a previous marriage, whom he had not seen since his divorce in 1949. The happy reunion is one of many unexpected tales, some joyful and others dispiriting, from among...
Like Betty Gloss, Ken Natzke won $6 million ($300,000 a year for 20 years) in the Illinois lottery last October. A onetime carpet cleaner, Natzke is now co-owner of a handyman service and part owner of a production company that books entertainment acts like Elvis Presley Impersonator Rick Saucedo. He receives daily phone calls from brokers and investors as well as from desperate, unknown individuals begging for money. His life-style now includes a 1984 Cadillac Eldorado and a new ten-room house. He fends off a persistent woman who wants him to marry her daughter. He also...