Word: luster
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...BRUCE GREENWOOD THIRTEEN DAYS For actors, playing John F. Kennedy must seem a challenge as frustrating as it is irresistible. Impersonating America's dishiest president - satyr and martyr - did not bring lasting luster to the careers of Stephen Collins, William Devane, James Franciscus or Cliff Robertson, let alone Vaughn Meader...
...famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and grower-champagne sections have been appearing on top restaurant wine lists around the country. Paul Grieco, beverage director of New York City's Gramercy Tavern, says, "The public's thirst for uniquely great products allows the smaller estates to flourish. They add luster to the polished sheen the Champagne region already wears...
...held the national title from1994-1998 while the women held the national crown from1993-1997, but both teams lost a little of that luster, and former Coach William Doyle resigned after the 1998-99 season...
...been seeking strategic partnerships across Asia to gain local distribution. But as his luster fades, fewer potential partners seem interested in linking up with him. "Broadband will see big growth in three to four years' time, but in the short term, CyberWorks will remain an old phone company," says Lee. After a share-price drop earlier this month, analysts calculate that CyberWorks' net worth, at $24.5 billion, is about equal in value to just the HKT portion--effectively putting a zero valuation on the company's Internet business. Li's dream of walking on air has dropped below the clouds...
...sort of double meaning, with its built-in pathos, would probably have struck the artist as a bit cheap. Diderot, despite his great admiration of Chardin, thought the ray disgusting--but there's nothing to suggest that Chardin was repelled by those glistening pearl-pink guts or the lunar luster on the ray's skin, let alone that (like some modern writers) he saw in the hanging ray an analogy to public execution or even the Crucifixion...