Word: glossing
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...stray from Victor or Columbia, during the 14 months when Decca had made its peace with Petrillo and the big two had not. So far, Heifetz has played such banalities as White Christmas and Largo al Factotum for Decca. Now, in his first Decca album, Heifetz puts his cool gloss on bits & pieces from Ravel, Debussy, Godowsky and others. Performance: good...
...Local self-government will be encouraged. But no amount of well-meant gloss could conceal the remaining, fundamental area of disagreement...
...typical of a part of America--the part that is commercial and superficial, the part that is cafe society. By its very nature a compromise to public taste, it never reaches to the roots of American society, as do jazz and ragtime, since the general public always prefers to gloss over its roots...
...young love. Cinemactor Charles Coburn plays Walter Huston's old part as a period dictator-Peter Stuyvesant. Nelson Eddy is the singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya, who has nothing to do with the plot, dances powerfully, continues to convey passion by making faces as if her partner had just trod on her corns. Kurt Weill's score has moments notably the gay-sad September Song, that suggest...
...Army and Navy could no longer gloss over or glorify defeats at Attu, Kiska, the Solomons, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Truk. Suddenly they had emerged as stages in a U.S. strategical plan for which Japan had as yet found no defensive answer. Even the man-in-the-street now knew: the crisis in the Pacific approached...