Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team, and they don't make mistakes. I have a great deal of respect for Joe and his team. Me, I'm just a rural old guy who's been around a long time and is not all that bright, to be honest about it." A gleam, a smile, a rumble, and the wily old Bear adds: "But we'll try to give them a good football game...
...ceremony begins, the debutante dressing room is steeped in chiffon clouds. Nineteen girls are sliding into slips, blowdrying hair, jostling each other with kid-gloved elbows. Some have brought maids who, in rushing to help their mistresses, nearly bowl the other girls over. The gowns sparkle and rustle and gleam, all as white as the driven snow. One girl is sporting a copy of her mother's wedding dress, another the family pearls. The third wears Grandma's lace-trimmed gloves and no bra.2
ALTHOUGH BELUSHI walks away with the film, several strong performances add to the general insanity and make the difference between a mildly amusing comedy and a gut-wrenching howler. Donald Sutherland makes one of his infrequent appearances, putting just the right gleam of depraved obsession into his all-too-brief characterization of the dope-smoking, corduroy-clad English professor. The scene in which he and three students conspiratorially share a joint in his darkened cottage is one of the most effective in the film, thanks largely to Sutherland's knowing grins and his wolfish, slightly stoned expression. Karen Allen charms...
...Gelsey Kirkland, 25, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, that trial has ended successfully. An obvious prospect at eight and a gleam in the eye of George Balanchine at 15, Gelsey (pronounced with a hard g, as in great) has emerged from ballet's long chrysalis stage as the most exciting young ballerina in the Western world...
...never saw your eyes light up on stage," she said. "I never saw them gleam, yes I can't sense that you're frustrated as dancers. I'm not talking about the frustration that comes with missing dinner, I mean those frustrations that are within you, that come from a tension within yourself. You have to learn to use the real frustrations, to take them and transform them...