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...this is the ninth campaign and 26th year of politics, including those years when Nixon was politicking out of his law office instead of a public office. She has had eight years as second lady and four as First Lady in which to burnish her image to a high gloss. For Eleanor, this is the seventh campaign and 16th year in the field. For whatever advantage Pat has in experience, Eleanor can claim compensating interest. Of the two, Eleanor was far more exposed to politics in her youth. Otherwise, their backgrounds contain notable parallels...
Both the garage and the Holiday Inn are part of an avid rush by local landowners to cast a plastic gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize...
...summer of 1972 sometimes bore a gloss of nostalgia. Rock stations piping vacationers to the beach played interminable "golden oldies," the rhythms of the '50s rising over the sunny traffic jams. The mood took others farther back. "Everywhere I go," said Sacramento Printer Gilbert Newman...
...begin and will not end in New York. "Every intelligent painter," he wrote in 1951, "carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says a gloss...
...shouldn't matter if I tell you that Gary, inspired to heights of asceticism by Coach Creed's commendation of humiliation of the flesh, comes very close to death by self-starvation at season's end. And there the novel ends, an enticing, finely ironic, but unfinished gloss to Eliot's lines on the end of the world...