Word: glow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impoverished the Snow Belt and enriched the Sunbelt. With this summer's oil shock, those feelings could come flooding back. The Northeast is already in a recession, suffering from such maladies as plummeting real estate prices and rising unemployment. The Southwest, by contrast, is beginning to bask in the glow of resurgent economic health. Rising oil prices, coupled with a possible shift in wealth because of the savings and loan bailout, may only serve to aggravate the differences between North and South...
...burnished glow of the cinematography imparts a portentous, not to say pretentious, air to the halls of justice where much of the film's most significant action occurs. The scruffy atmosphere of the book, the sense of lively, crooked, occasionally desperate human scurryings along marbled halls that have not been cleaned in years, and are probably lined by spittoons, is lost in the film's elegant shadows...
...fizzles out, as Gremlins 2 pretends to and ultimately does. At the climax, when other movies are accelerating, a dyna- movie must slow down in a vain search for emotional heft. By the end, viewers may be exhausted from information overload. Instead of leaving the theater with a rosy glow or warm tears, dyna-moviegoers feel like a James Bond vodka martini. They have been shaken but not stirred...
When the klieg lights of the summit have faded and the lambent glow of history takes over, Bush's response to the controversy set off by the Wellesley seniors may be what is remembered. While the First Lady's official cause is literacy, her unofficial mission is to convince a new generation of women that there is honor and a deep, sustaining pleasure in motherhood, that a life-style is no substitute for a life. "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, ((not)) winning one more verdict, or not closing...
...dinner meeting of America's board of directors, heavily from the midland where they grow things and make things. Now that the Gorbachev glow has faded and the glitz is gone, George Bush and his crew have the tougher job of helping the Soviet Union gear up for the open world and the marketplace...