Word: lustrously
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RESIDENTS OF SIMI VALley don't usually have much contact with people from South Central Los Angeles. The lustrous suburb where the Rodney King beating trial was held and the inner-city war zone that erupted in rioting two weeks ago are separated by just a 45-minute ride. In most other respects they are a world apart. But last week, for a fleeting moment of mutual incomprehension, they came face to face...
Nowadays opera audiences are finding healthy voices rarer. It may be that young singers are expanding into heavy but popular roles without the kind of seasoning that the small repertory opera house used to provide. A rested voice is lustrous and secure. A frayed voice has loopholes, swoops or worse...
...Neumann, survivor of a Nazi death camp. After the war he buried his identity along with his ethnicity. The world now regards him as an all- American maker of movies and starlets. But in the world of the best seller, when a protagonist rises too high, a pair of lustrous eyes are just around the corner. These belong to Luba, a sensuous young actress with her own hidden background of European tragedy. She triggers memories of his murdered family. Dennison holds them back for 18 chapters while he deals with his ex-wife, his anti-Semitic father...
...Massachusetts, Dukakis has become an object of political scorn. The Governor who boasted repeatedly during the 1988 presidential campaign of balancing ten budgets in a row is drowning in red ink. His credibility is shot. Legislators he once controlled dismiss him as irrelevant. Rarely has a lustrous reputation sunk so far so fast...
...will be, whoever is elected this fall. But Carlucci, limited as his opening moves may have been, has at least had the courage to point out the devilish dilemmas ahead. As a fresh and energetic figure in an Administration rapidly drawing to its close, he has brightened his already lustrous reputation -- and just possibly his future as well...