Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soared to $20, prostitution is still so common that bartenders seldom go through the formality of selling a customer a drink, merely shrug: "The girls are upstairs." A man can still lose his wad in the gambling joints that wink with neon along York and Monmouth Streets and glow softly in the bottom land down by the river. And though three whorehouses Lave recently flourished within a block of the station house, Newport's police still look on their town with innocent eyes. "I never seen gambling at the Tropicana," Detective Pat Ciafardini has testified. "As for clear...
...Reason, by Harold Nicolson. Catherine the Great, Jonathan Swift, John Wesley and a score of other 18th century movers and shapers are laved in the warm glow of idiosyncrasy rather than the cold light of 100% accuracy. The author writes in the witty and amusing fashion of a male Nancy Mitford...
...Facts of Life. The age was often out of character but never out of characters. That is what fascinates Harold Nicolson, who scants history for personality, and arranges his book as a gallery of portraits bathed in the warm glow of idiosyncrasy rather than the cold light of 100% accuracy. The result is an "entertainment" written in the witty and amusing fashion of a male Nancy Mitford. Among the chief sitters: Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Saint Simon, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Louis XIV, Louis XV, John Wesley and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Intellectual...
...would make as many as 100 sketches before deciding how to place a single arm in a painting. Though he turned out his share of pretentious failures, he was always the master of composition. And despite his apparent indifference to color, such canvases as The Entry into Paris could glow like satin...
...massive rectangles of Elysium, with their varied thicknesses and textures, are both somber and subtle. They glow before the eye, drop back into space. As the eye moves about them, they in turn seem to move in relation to one another...