Word: luster
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...Tyrones of Eugene O'Neill's finest drama were his own cursed family: actor-father James, two wastrel sons and a mother retreating behind the lace curtains of drug-addled despair. Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell and Katharine Hepburn lent their luster to Sidney Lumet's 1962 film, which is true to the poetry and horror of this loving, devastating family portrait...
...resident of Oklahoma, I’ve never been attached to professional sports. Franchises appropriately shun the underpopulated and geographically-dispersed Sooner State for the greener pastures of big cities and more loyal fan bases.Most of the time, I don’t really mind. The NBA lost its luster for me when Michael Jordan retired, and even the enormous Oklahoma City Hornets billboards on I-35 have trouble wresting attention from a populace rabid for college football.And the prospect of a summer of baseball highlights and steroid scandals leaves me uninterested and even perturbed.Baseball isn?...
...pick the G.O.P. nominee in 2008. David Winston, a veteran G.O.P. pollster, says that Frist--who plans to retire from the Senate after this year--"is clearly laying out this marker." If he can succeed in passing an immigration bill--especially his own--he may regain some of the luster he lost last year. If he can't, he may return home to Tennessee as the ineffectual G.O.P. leader who lost his touch--and his presidential prospects...
...forces uprooted networks of Algeria's extremist Armed Islamic Group (gia) who were responsible for the deadly bombing campaign that rocked Paris in the mid-'90s, they've earned added respect by successfully thwarting a score or more of major plots. Lately, however, some of the French force's luster has tarnished as allegations of torturing and framing suspects have arisen. Last week, an appeals court acquitted two Corsican nationalists of contracting the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction for involvement in 1994 bombings...
...Russia, by contrast, is struggling to keep its Olympic luster. After the Soviet Union fell, sports funding dried up. With no income to support them, some athletes found refuge in the crime world. Others, who might normally have passed on their knowledge to the next generation, simply left the country, with top coaches Tatiana Tarasova and Tamara Moskvina both settling in America. Russia went from 23 medals at the 1994 Lillehammer Games to 13 at Salt Lake City in 2002. After Russia's uninspired showing at the last Winter Games, President Vladimir Putin lamented the country's parlous medical state...