Word: luster
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...Sharp-eared listeners will detect that the Somerized orchestra has a habit of wandering about the stage: the strings may shift a bit toward center, a trumpeter may wander farther into right field. But most customers are not likely to question the illusion: the gimmicked Toscanini recordings have a luster that their mono counterparts lack...
...noted that the projection of the United States as the "champion of democracy" during the era of Woodrow Wilson, was the highest development of "the luster of the U.S. image...
...common enough allegation that a political platform is rarely more than a hazy frame, something like a television screen, behind which the all-important personality of a candidate assumes greater luster. I suspect that Mr. Nixon's newly acquired frame is just that, for the very good reason that he has had to fight off too many of his party's various wings to produce anything more substantial...
...probably be husky, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and widely known because of his televised battles with Soviet U.N. delegates. A New England patrician (TIME cover, Aug. 11, 1958), Lodge would have little farm-belt appeal, but he would add plenty of foreign policy luster to the ticket if the election fell in a time of international crisis...
...bandwagon gathered headway, the press sometimes even appeared to help push it along.* One reason that Kennedy looked so good in the crucial Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries was that the Kennedy camp's shrewdly calculated pre-primary misgivings had been widely heralded in the press, adding immeasurable luster to the ultimate victories...