Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
Reaching behind the widely used notion that all entertainment is built on artful deception, Doerfer warned that programs which "contain a deceptive gloss above the accepted tolerances of dramatic license" might be outlawed in the next session of Congress, since shows that lure viewers unethically are using unfair means to outdo the sponsor's commercial competitors. "If the industry does not successfully survive that crisis," concluded Chairman Doerfer, "it has no one to blame but itself...
Governor, decided to put a high gloss on her second tongue. At Manhattan's Columbia University School of General Studies, Mia plunged into an intermediate English course for foreign students, four one-hour classes a week...
...Center. Actually, the times have changed more than Aalto. His use of traditional materials-wood, brick, copper-and rough textures now seems a welcome antidote to too much slickness and gloss. Aalto still insists as firmly as ever: "Architecture-the real thing-is only to be found when man stands in the center...
...intimate little party, Zsa Zsa says: "But dahr-link, deese are my most intimate friends - United Press, Associated Press, and Meester Reuter!" The Devil's Disciple (Hecht-Hill-Lancaster & Brynaprod; United Artists). Its carpingest critic said of this 1897 comedy: "It will assuredly lose its gloss with the lapse of time, and leave itself exposed as the threadbare popular melodrama it technically is." The critic also happened to be the play's author, George Bernard Shaw. Rashly ignoring the warning of a wise old showman, Hollywood has at tempted to put new life into the languid old yarn...