Word: lusterizing
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...only other country singer with Haggard's kind of versatility is Johnny Cash, 42, who unfortunately weakened his once authentic backwoods appeal with a series of network TV commercials for industrial America. Cash may restore some of his lost luster with a new single called Ragged Old Flag, which plays on America's patriotic wish to believe in itself, Watergate or no. Against the background of snare drums, banjos and a reverential chorus, Cash tells how the flag was shot up and torn at the Alamo and Chancellorsville, and then intones...
...purely cold-blooded reasons, Washington is unwilling to cozy up to Castro at this point. For one thing, it wants his somewhat tarnished charisma to lose a little more of its luster before he is welcomed back into the family of hemisphere states. For another, it is quite content to see Moscow go on spending $1.5 million a day to prop up Castro's economically troubled regime...
...after a business trip to Washington aboard a state-owned aircraft not long ago, Westmoreland found himself 18th in line for takeoff. "In the old days, I'd fly into a military airfield and they'd clear out everything a day ahead," he observed wryly. But the luster of his four stars still casts a glow. During a recent visit to a technical school in Denmark, S.C., Westmoreland found some of the students dressed in old combat jackets, their name tags still in place. "Where were you?" Westmoreland briskly inquired of each while shaking hands. Back came...
...area by about two feet, was not put into effect, nor realized by the director and set designer. This single problem takes a disproportionate chunk out of the first part of the show, which fortunately picks up momentum quickly enough not only to save the show, but to add luster to it as well...
...House Appropriations Committee is attempting to restore all NIH items to or above the 1972 funding level and re-establish the old ratio between new and ongoing research grants. If Congress succeeds in saving these programs, it can still prevent both the lights in the laboratories and the luster of American medicine from being dimmed...