Word: burnished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obsessions so common that anyone could identify with them?fear of heights, of closed spaces, of open spaces and, above all, of false accusation and/or arrest. Television, when he began appearing as host of a series of funny-scary stories that he supervised (but rarely directed), allowed him to burnish his public persona to a high gloss: the solemn-faced fat man with a stately pace and a sepulchral voice improbably making outrageous puns and ghoulish observations about the tales he told...
...money-changers in the temple were born 2,000 years too soon. Otherwise they could have learned from "Stars of the Cathode Church" [Feb. 4] how to burnish their image...