Word: lustrously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend an academic year teaching in France. Ordinarily, the wife and the children, Peter, 9, and Sarah, 6, would go with . him. But Anne has been asked to write the catalog for a new exhibit of the works of Caroline Watson (1864-1938), an American artist whose once lustrous reputation could now stand some repolishing. The job requires regular trips to Manhattan and periods of peace and quiet about the Foster household. Michael flies off to France, and the first sitter Anne tries turns out to be churlish and unsuitable. What to do with the kids...
...seems bent on proving, quite unnecessarily, what she has already established: she is the most enterprising woman writer making records today. The Magazine, a spiraling cycle of songs organized around themes of loneliness, defiance, memory and renewal, seems as if it was long and hard in coming. Lustrous lines ("If there are three girls running,/ there are three girls running nowhere") alternate with hand-me-down Ferlinghetti, sometimes even in the same song ("We walk in easy snakes/ through the roulette rattling of the ethyl"). In songs like Juke Box Fury, the music, jazz inflected and flirtatiously arrhythmic, keeps...
...soft and spoiled at the beginning, take on a he-manly glamour once he assumes his mission. Like most of the other cast members, MacLachlan delivers his speeches as incantations from an old, old testament. The actors seem hypnotized by the spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments when Annis is onscreen, Dune finds the emotional center that has eluded it in its parade of rococo decor and austere special effects. She reminds us of what movies...
...book's subtitle. "Kindness," in Author Wilson's mischievous sense, comes to mean an unnatural state of grace. Priscilla is one of those exasperating people who appear poised under all conditions. She can be part of someone's fantasy or grubby pursuit without misplacing a lustrous strand of her hair. Hughie Duncan, an irrevocable romantic and book editor, is allowed to worship her as an untouchable goddess. The physically and morally repugnant newspaperman Henry Feathers is granted bed privileges, partly out of pity and partly, as the author writes of this woman who is at her best...
...eternal glitter, gold is not lustrous to mine. Modern prospectors use bulldozers and giant stone crushers, processing seven tons of ore to recover a single ounce of gold. Stimulated by high prices, mining intensified in the late 1970s and has now reached boom stages...