Word: glossier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, European life seems glossier than ever. The roads leading to Rome are crammed with shiny new cars, the pricey restaurants of Paris are crowded with smartly dressed diners, and shops from Stockholm to Seville do a brisk pre-Christmas business in luxury items. But there is a dark underside to this bright picture. Unlike the U.S., the industrial nations of Europe never really recovered from the 1974-75 recession, in part because they avoided rapid-growth policies for fear of aggravating inflation. A consequence, as well as a continuing cause, of the sluggishness is the decline of three basic...
Similar stories appear every month-and on glossier pages. Yet Novelist Brian Moore, 54, turns a potential stale helping of white wine and sympathy into an enigmatic moral thriller. In bed with her lover, Sheila sounds just like the lapsed Catholic she is: "I am in grace. In my state of grace." But what drives her-at the peak of her new-found happiness-to contemplate suicide? She is also obsessed with a more mundane form of annihilation: "Those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner...
...three games every Sunday. In addition, this year's television schedule has been swelled by as many as four additional college and World Football League contests per week. To fight off the perils of glut and decline, the networks are redoubling their efforts to make the games glossier with replays, added camera coverage and visiting-coach commentaries. If ratings continue to sink, such remedies may not be the answer. Less football might...
...safe. Shaft starts to track the money down, a process that eventually involves him with some shady types from Downtown, some anxious cops and a bevy of slinky, mindlessly sexy playmates. Compared with last year's Shaft original, Shaft's Big Score is more elaborate, a lot glossier and finally duller. Shaft himself suggests that the black man's ultimate goal is to live high, smash faces and make terrible demands on his sexual prowess. As the hero, Richard Roundtree brings considerably more fervor to the clinches than to the dialogue...