Word: lustered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Moscow, Bulganin called a meeting of the top army Chekists and a sprinkling of those genuine fighting marshals who are regularly on call to give luster to Chekist authority. Purpose of the meeting: to pledge support of Premier Georgy Malenkov's arrest of Internal Affairs (MVD) Minister Lavrenty Beria, himself an oldtime Chekist (TIME, July 20). The declaration was intended to 1) end speculation that the army may have acted independently of the government in the arrest of Beria, and 2) preserve the front of solidarity behind which the struggle for power is raging. It could...
...theme of The Star which lacks luster, for similar stories of a fading actress were presented sharply and adroitly in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Nor is Bette Davis disappointing: she shrieks, she bellows, she rolls her prodigious eyes. But this time the script is as aged as its heroine, and The Star, with a lack of biting satire, can only gum its way through a dim Hollywood adventure...
When Wonderful Town finishes the Boston run, it will set off for Philadelphia and two weeks more of "polishing." I don't know why; the show has a high luster already...
World War I, which depleted the ranks of royalty and otherwise lowered the tone of society, took some of the luster off Grace Vanderbilt's crown. High taxes and World War II dealt her even harder blows. The famed Vanderbilt hospitality was offered to some odd citizens indeed: among them was Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko, whom Mrs. Vanderbilt regaled with reminiscences of the late Czar Nicholas. After her husband's death in 1942, Grace Vanderbilt abandoned to the wreckers the 58-room Fifth Avenue mansion which had cost her husband's grandfather...
...cleared away the rest of the gravel. There, astonishingly preserved, was a 7-ft. mural of Venus reclining on a sea shell, attended by cupids. Unlike most Pompeian paintings, which have been dimmed and reddened by ash, rain and time, the mural had kept most of its original luster: deep sky-blues, rosy flesh tints, bright gold for the ornaments, rich brown for Venus' hair...