Word: glossing
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...Yeah, there's this guy George Gloss, who has the second-hand book shop called the Brattle where I was looking for Nelson Algren's book "Come Morning." He is funny--would have been great...
...minor impressionist whose works are played more often than they deserve. Western critics might denounce him too, if anyone cared. The diatribe in Jenmin Jih Pao specifically cited Respighi's symphonic poem, Pines of Rome for stimulating "empty talk about changes in contrasts and emotions" which tries to "gloss over the class content.... so as to pull the wool over the eyes of the masses and deceive them...
...camera work and editing have occasional rough edges. But nothing detracts from the clarity or importance of the film's story. In a way, the film's roughness even enhances its politics; it seems unafraid to show itself as the product of labor, of a commitment to content over gloss...
Most of what the South Vietnamese know about military tactics they learned from their American advisers. They learned so well that today ARVN corps commanders flit about the countryside in their personal helicopters, and some unit commanders bounce around in their own high-gloss, jet-black Jeeps. Even the lowliest enlisted man honors the American way of war: never walk when you can hitch a ride in a truck, never hitch in a truck when a Jeep is available, never ride in a Jeep when a helicopter is going your way. These profligate habits cost considerable fuel, as does...
...Consequently, the status differences among people will also be to a degree genetic. Finally, it follows that the more equally society distributes wholesome surroundings, education, and opportunities for social advancement, the more will social status depend on genetic differences, for the environmental differences will then have been minimized. I gloss over the details of the argument, so as to get on to other matters...