Word: glow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...station on Route 23 just past the center of town, the electric clock had stopped and the giant soft-drink cooler was turned off. At Arthur and Alice Somers' huge Victorian manse on the edge of nearby Lake Garfield, the cavernous, antiquated kitchen was bathed in the soft glow of kerosene lamps and candles. Alice Somers heated corn chowder on an 1887 Rollhaus wood stove, meanwhile keeping her eye on the mulled cider that simmered near by. In the barn behind his parents' 230-year-old colonial home, John Maycuk, 17, helped his Jersey cow give birth...
...becomes construction noise and restless people passing through. Alaska has not made any sense of itself yet, and neither has McGinnis. There is too little attempt to understand what he has recorded. Nevertheless, he presents the real scene, the graceless complete one. It has the robust glow and toughness of the Alaska that is one huge ragged edge of America...
...centuries ago by the bereaved Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Chosen of the Palace), the Taj Mahal is perhaps the most extravagant and beautiful mausoleum in the world. Made of shimmering white marble from Rajasthan, its domes and minarets glow so brightly, even in moonlight, that large sections were wrapped in burlap during the most recent India-Pakistan war out of fear that Pakistani aircraft might use it as a beacon...
...Stunt Man never comes close to being the trashy, indulgent mess it could easily have been. The movie is rescued by its director's brilliant gamesmanship; Richard Rush is a brilliant trickster who can bring a magical, dancing glow even to lackluster materials. Despite all the superfluous innuendos of Meaning, the impotent love story, the seductive but empty-headed banality of the lady-star (Barbara Hershey), and a screenplay that at times suggests that talkies were a big mistake, Rush has created a nerve-tingling celluloid magic show. Rush is a master of the infinite details of the surface...
...research on the effects of TV is the heavy reliance it has placed on the number of hours people spend with their sets on. Using data compiled by the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago, Hirsch found that while housewives and retired folks rank high among those whose sets glow eight hours a day, the numbers tell nothing about how closely they watch or even why. Considering their frequent solitude, Hirsch suggests, TV "is probably more of a solution to their problems than a cause." Other students of TV's impact have also ignored a crucial human factor. Hirsch...