Word: patina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just so. The hat, unfortunately, looks like a felt pie pan, and Delon moves mechanically through the action. Melville means to pay sober hom age to all the Hollywood films that did all this but better. It is a pity that for all its virtues, The Godson's patina of high seriousness renders every scene forced and selfconscious...
...patina seems slightly worn. This summer NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts-David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden-had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back, then let 100 of them out for sale through a German philatelist (TIME, July 24). The three never actually profited by the arrangement, but it raised a sour question of exploitation...
...uniting to take over British oil interests. Later, he swells in equity and power as director of postwar real estate development. Outwardly the idealistic public servant, inwardly the unscrupulous hypocrite, Magog exemplifies Sinclair's epigram that "if politics was the art of the possible, then principles were the patina of the pragmatic...
...decision, he first denounced any attempt by Westminster to run Ulster like a "coconut colony." Faulkner also showed up at a huge rally in Belfast of nearly 100,000 Protestants, which was summoned by William Craig, leader of the extremist Ulster Vanguard. Faulkner's presence lent a patina of respectability to Craig's demand for a massive civil-disobedience campaign. Then Faulkner reversed himself. "We must respect the law," he said in a statement issued on his last day as Prime Minister. "I must earnestly urge that there should be no further disruption of industry or economic life...
...President and baby are doing well") and jokes about the latest White House formula or diaper pins. It might well be that a cigar-smoking, oddsmaking computer would opt for a widow as the ideal candidate, since that would remove the husband question yet endow her with a patina of nonthreatening domestic respectability. Throw in a couple of grown children, the computer might add, and let the word out that she loves to cook-on occasion...