Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undulations of plot-mistaken identities, furtive meetings in a forest haunted by impish spirits, a magic ride across the midsummer night sky, even an arrow that pierces the heart of one swain (Tony Roberts)-are meant to recall Shakespeare's Dream. Ingmar Bergman painted a lovely gloss on the subject in Smiles of a Summer Night. So why can't Allen have more fun with it? No film labeled a sex comedy should offer the truism "Marriage is the death of hope" four times, to be written on the blackboard of the moviegoer's mind. No Woody...
...security challenges that dwarfed even last summer's royal wedding. Security preparations for his public appearances were the most elaborate that Britain had ever mounted. The police were clearly anticipating publicity-seeking demonstrations, and perhaps even ugly scuffles designed to embarrass the Pope and tarnish the ecumenical gloss of the visit. Most Britons support the Pope's trip, but Special Branch police were watchful of a faction of anti-Pope fanatics, especially in Liverpool and Glasgow. "We are expecting trouble," said one security spokesman...
...system he is fighting, in his view, is "corrupt to its core." While his book is primarily an entertaining gloss of his most intriguing legal battles, Dershowitz lays out his case against criminal justice in a furious ten-page introduction. The system is "built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth," he claims. Even respected members of the profession are part of what he labels the "cheat elite," who doctor facts to produce the results they want. They include not only police and prosecutors, he says, but defense attorneys and judges as well...
...different from that of the 1930s. Perhaps the oversight came because most of the leaders of the ADA got their political education in the days when liberals, labor and minorities all co-existed in the harmony of the New Deal. More fundamentally, the Democrats may have been trying to gloss over the differences that exist within the liberal segment of their party by appealing to a figure with whom even Reagan, ironically a former member of the ADA, can sympathize...
Ronald Reagan's New Federalism could "almost make you cry because it is so logical," King recently declared, praising that White House initiative. But his own illogical tendency to gloss over its imperfections has already hurt the citizens of Massachusetts, and threatens even more damage in the future. It could make...