Word: gloss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portrait of life in a police state. This scientist who dabbles in black magic reaps only petty pleasures, while his demonic bargain leads him to mistrust friends, denounce colleagues, deny his beliefs and pledge to become a spy. Director Jiri Zizka, a Czech emigre, adds a mysterious high-tech gloss but stints on emotion. So do most of the cast, especially the bloodless David Strathairn in the lead. Still, beneath the expressionistic spectacle is an intimate, heartfelt and understandably angry play. W.A.H...
...designed to rally Mikhail Gorbachev's countrymen around his crusade. One notes the year Gorbachev came to power and began wiping away the grime of history that has dimmed Lenin's revolution. The other presents the current leader as maestro, winning a rousing "Bravo!" as he puts his own gloss on a score written by V.I. Lenin...
...lifestyle have been drawn into a parasitical relationship with modern, quick-fix culture. Notions of good health are governed by a misdirected philosophy of immediate gratification and a hell-bent emphasis on current notions of good looks, while advertisers and the growing health industry invest millions in glamour and gloss to see that we never forget our waist lines...
Berkoff manages to convey the essence of the dilemma for Gregor's parents and sister, albeit without the least sympathy for their natural anxiety and revulsion. He is far more interested in portraying them as grasping and money mad, in a Marxist gloss on the plight of the worker. They are so coarse and reprehensible -- more animalistic when eating than the bug in the back bedroom , -- that there is no point of connection for the audience, certainly no creative tension between expecting the family to take a noble course and knowing why it succumbs to a selfish...
...Saturday Shevardnadze paid a quick visit to Deng at his winter retreat in Shanghai following two days of talks in Beijing. The Soviets were far more eager to put a gloss on the new relationship than are the Chinese. Before his departure, Shevardnadze recounted how Deng had spoken of a "chapter on the future." But Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Tian Zengpei chose to emphasize "differences" between the two sides over the Kampuchea issue and even said the mid-May summit date was still under "study...