Word: glow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...places along the boulevard, the sun's slanting rays silhouette the remaining palms. And in the familiar salmon glow of a Western sunset, one can almost see a jaunty Charlie Chaplin, high-stepping up the boulevard, on his way, perhaps, to the ballroom of the Garden Court...
...white Boeing 707 taxied to a stop at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport, and Alexander Haig stepped wearily out into the glow of television lights. The Secretary of State was nearing the end of an arduous diplomatic shuttle that had taken him some 30,000 miles and was in serious danger of stalling. As he prepared to negotiate yet again, he sounded a familiar theme: "It is clear tonight that the task will not be easy, but what is in play is so important that everyone has to apply all the strength possible to achieve a political accord." What...
...Grant Oliphant and Chris DeMoulin want to argue pop psychology. Speaking first, Oliphant launches an elaborate attack on stoicism, celibacy, alienation and the jut-jawed manner of one of his tournament hosts. Oliphant's rhetorical ripostes ("Will we sentence ourselves to joyless purgatory?") and practiced voice glow with persuasive charm...
...shuttle began in a warm glow. It was the first diplomatic trip abroad on which Nancy Maginnes, whom I had married on March 30, came with me. What she absorbed of my strain is exemplified by her acquisition of two ulcers, which put her in the hospital for weeks at the end of the trip...
...seemed to be written chiefly as an antidote to the view that anyone who created Gregor Samsa must have been a dark and morbid character, though Brod's work is honest and engaging, we almost lose sight of all the self-torture in the radiance of the saint-like glow. Hayman's biography is more balanced, but also admiring (as anyone must be) of Kafka's incredible lack of cynicism, even as he was dying...