Word: luster
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...weekly. As in his first novel, Green Monday, Thomas has assembled a picaresque cast of cutthroats, poseurs, cultural pimps and likable rascals. But the author's true love is for art, the canvases, the places and the people, of which he writes at times with the clarity and luster of a Rubens ... or the school...
...only serious smudge on the luster of this World Cup, hundreds of police armed with attack dogs, tear-gas launchers and riot gear patrol the streets of Bilbao in armored personnel carriers. The enemy: England's 20,000-strong youthful ragtag army of fans, feared throughout the Continent, loose in the land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have...
...John Paul ground through the first day of his exhausting 32-hour visit-first to address Argentine clergy at the capital's Metropolitan Cathedral, later in the morning to meet with other members of the junta at the presidential Casa Rosada-some Argentines sought to add luster to their own causes through the Pope's presence. Most audaciously, ardent followers of the populist policies of the late Dictator Juan Perón wanted to gain political capital from the major papal appearance of the day. That was an afternoon Mass at the venerable basilica of Our Lady...
...million on Close Encounters; after all, everybody got rich anyway. With 1941 there was no such reprieve. Though the film eventually broke even-and though, frame for frame, it was every bit as adroitly assembled as his hits had been-1941 tarnished the boy wonder's luster. "Until then I thought I was immune to failure," he says. "But I couldn't come down from the power high of making big films on large canvases. I threw everything in, and it killed the soup. 1941 was my encounter with economic reality...
...years, the electronics and communications conglomerate (1980 sales: $8 billion) was already heading into trouble. Earnings were slipping, morale had been devastated by a decade-long succession of management fiascos, and Wall Street analysts were beginning to wonder whether the once high-flying firm would ever regain its former luster...