Word: glosses
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...conversations in Palm Springs-or at least the communiques-are likely to gloss over the uglier problems: Guantanamo, Panama, and above all wide-spread Latin American doubts about the new administration's sensitivity to the area's needs...
...camera through opaque, black-rimmed glasses, moves about the studio with the air of someone mentally counting his steps, speaks in a professorial baritone surcharged with a raspy German accent. He has none of Billy Graham's charismatic fervor, or Fulton Sheen's high-gloss oratory; in a tired-blood contest, he would probably run a dead heat with Ed Sullivan...
British Author Garnett insists that his novel "was conceived as a frivolous gloss upon the most charming story in the Bible." But he concedes that "a parable kept pushing its way in." The nightmarish horror surrounding the ark, he suggests, conjures up the specter of modern-day thermonuclear destruction. And Noah collaborated with God in the destruction of all other life, leading to the question of how many potential nuclear-age Noahs, who fancy they have a direct line to God, are extant...
Here and there, interesting camera work gives the film a professional gloss. But even such seasoned performers as Lindfors and Berghof falter before the pervasive foolishness of a script that asks them...
...worst injured along by holding the straps of his life jacket between his teeth. But once they reach land, the note of remember-who-this-is-all-about surfaces coyly again: one of the crew tosses a pair of waterlogged boots to another, wisecracking: "Put a high gloss on these, porter. They're for my friend when he gets back to Hyannis Port...