Word: luster
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...According to Courtney S. Kirshner ’79, president of the Harvard Club of Ireland, the College’s 300 alumni living in Ireland and Northern Ireland “are in the highest tiers of their professions. A Harvard diploma gives immediate recognition of excellence and luster that encourages these elite to return to their home countries and participate in their nation’s life at the highest levels...
Krugman said that in considering Mankiw the Bush administration is simply looking for someone famous to add luster to the executive branch...
...WANTED. ANDREW LUSTER, 39, swinging bachelor and great-grandson of cosmetics magnate Max Factor, after jumping bail of $1 million while on trial for charges of raping three women and drugging them with gamma hydroxybutyrate, the so-called date-rape drug; in Ventura County, California. Luster videotaped his assaults on two of the women, declaring in one tape: "That's exactly what I like in my room. A passed-out beautiful girl." Luster has pleaded innocent; if convicted of over 85 criminal counts, he could face up to 150 years in prison...
...finest stage rendition I've seen of "A Streetcar Named Desire," with Glenn Close as Tennessee Williams' fractured heroine Blanche duBois. Physically, Close seems wrong: she is pointy of face, sinewy of frame. She lacks those soft features that Blanche wants caressed by soft lights; Vivien Leigh's lingering luster, in the first London production and in the 1951 movie, convinced audiences well into the third act that Blanche was right about the world, and the brute Stanley Kowalski (Brando) was wrong. Close's angularity telegraphs from her first entrance that Blanche is not who she wants the world...
...Charade starred two of the most popular actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood: the luminous Audrey Hepburn and the debonair, adorably-cleft chinned Cary Grant. And as Sydney Pollock learned from his remake of Sabrina in 1997, even today’s stars tend to pale against the luster of yesteryear’s celebrities...