Word: glossed
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...hours before my first day of work at The New York Sun, I accidentally smeared pink lip gloss on my white collared shirt. I wore what I hoped were professional-looking pointy shoes, but three blisters formed on each heel after just one subway stop. Three stops later, after a painful ascent, I sat down on a bench in City Hall Park to put bright pink UHS-brand Band-Aids on my heels. I rose, tentatively putting weight on each foot to see if the Band-Aids would ease my transition from flip-flops. As I stood and walked...
Each man put his own gloss on the joint statement. To Reagan the issue was "Will we join together in sharply reducing offensive nuclear arms and moving to nonnuclear defensive strengths for systems to make this a safer world?" Countered Gorbachev: "We must not let the arms race move off into space, and we must cut it down on earth...
Stratford's style serves well for Lear, a robust and propulsive production of a play that is explicitly about great emotions. But the hard gloss reduces the subtler depths of Twelfth Night to mere giggles and kickshaws. Seeing these productions together may enable modern audiences to understand why earlier critics revered the Bard's tragedies but undervalued his comedies, overlooking their moral complexity and their glimpses of humiliation and pain in commoners' everyday life. The stress on low comic exaggeration also robs Twelfth Night of much of its social consequence: there is little sense that the battle between Sir Toby...
...office. Others wanted to experiment sexually with a disposable partner. But most seemed to drift into sexual relationships with a man they had previously pigeonholed as a friend, not a lover. By convincing themselves that the man would somehow remain merely a friend, these women even managed to gloss over sexual intercourse. The first act of sex, Richardson writes, can be rationalized as "a temporary aberration that does not alter the original basis of the relationship...
...does, of course, his piano. The $40,000 concert grand, plucked by crane from the living room of his Manhattan townhouse, had its 12,000 parts cleaned and examined with a degree of care worthy of Air Force One. Its mahogany case was given coat after coat of high-gloss finish and hand-rubbed with fine steel wool, a laborious task that took 18 hours. It was then packed in space-age material resistant to heat and weather, loaded aboard a 747 early in April and shipped as a diplomatic pouch to Moscow. In the week before the concert...