Word: lusterless
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...summed up the prevailing bitter mood of those Czechoslovaks who remain: "We will work even less than before; we will be the greatest country of nonworkers." All too evidently, the country was slipping back from its luminous "spring" (as the Czechoslovaks call their brief period of reform) toward the lusterless mediocrity of a Soviet satellite...
...child comes to have significance beyond his own life. Prisoners submit to torture and death rather than reveal his constantly changing refuge. As Allied planes drone overhead, the great war outside Buchenwald is echoed by the small one inside. Men whose lusterless eyes have long since accepted defeat and early death begin again to act like people with a future. The precious burden of the boy becomes synonymous with the tomorrow none of them had ever hoped to see. Rumors run through the camp that the war is almost over. And when the Germans continue their pathological extermination of prisoners...
...reprinting editorials from other papers, was jolted by a wry campaign observation in the Buffalo Evening News. "A good turnout can be expected at the polls in November," predicted the News. "Most voters used up their apathy watching the conventions." Could it be, Marsh wondered, that the lusterless campaign had provided a setting for editorial whimsy? By last week, with publication of the second of two editorial samplers, the Trib's Marsh had made his point: ∙The Louisville Courier-Journal noted that a local Republican office-seeker was blaming Lyndon Johnson for everything- from the mess...
Sexy Shelly Winters can play the part of a floozie perfectly, and Phone Call from a Stranger is an enjoyable, spicy movie as long as she is on the screen. Miss Winters does not have a very large part, however, and without her Phone Call is quite lusterless. Besides this it is burdened with one of the most ludicrous characterizations I have ever seen...
...costume. After an afternoon of cramming sessions with Stage Director Herbert Graf, Assistant Manager Max Rudolf and some final tips just an hour before curtain time from Conductor Fritz Reiner, Roberta was waved onstage. She turned out to be just about the only bright light in an otherwise lusterless performance...