Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this handy packet has a fault, it's the masterminds' regrettable tendency to gloss over the larger issues, preferring to plump for the stock phrases of money-making hype. No true follower is about to waste time reading now the tips within will help "understand the intimate nature of Pac-Man "and" use your own individual talents to design your personal Pac-Man strategy for maximum point potential." If you needed to be told about the "magnificent video game...one of the most ingenious thoroughly enjoyable games ever introduced to any public anywhere. "you probably wouldn't have gotten this...
...successful new risk takers made their fortunes in electronic esoterica. Others have earned megabucks by putting an alluring gloss-on mundane products or performing commonplace services in newer, more efficient ways. In many of the cases, they nursed their creative ideas for years before venturing into the chancy world of profit-and-loss statements. Profiles of five who made...
...includes the dances for On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Yet his first love has always been ballet, and during a career stretching back to 1944, he has created such modern classics as the footloose Fancy Free, the silent Moves and a brilliant gloss on Afternoon of a Faun. Last week at Lincoln Center, in a meeting of two kindred spirits, Robbins came face to face with Gershwin's biggest, most problematic instrumental work, unveiling The Gershwin Concerto, based on the Concerto...
Franklin Roosevelt was probably a better president than Ronald Reagan is or will be. He may even be, as you claim, our "greatest modern leader." However, that gives no one the right to gloss over the facts of history. Economically, Roosevelt was a failure for eight years. Diplomatically, he allowed the nation to be put in a situation where it could not avoid war. "He made people believe everything would work out all right. And by and large, it did." I guess so, if you consider "all right" the atomic bomb and the Cold War, tangible results of Roosevelt...
...Kempinski's play is a melancholy partita-two characters, six scenes-about a brilliant violinist struck down in her prime by multiple sclerosis, and the psychiatrist who tries to help her. The plot may seem a tasteless gloss on the career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...