At one point last year, industry pundits were predicting Oscar glory for Unbroken (Universal, 15), Angelina Jolie's sluggish, self-gilding biopic of American Olympic athlete and second world war prison-camp survivor Louis Zamperini.
While pulling records from his massive collection of vinyl, which lines an entire wall of his home, Cowie became obsessed with finding songs made for adults but suitable for children: catchy, universal pieces that introduce the glory of music to fresh ears.
Although the press release, below, is full of garbage jargon, the bottom line is that Monster, in their infinite glory, has released a "universal" pair of RF 3D glasses.
"My vision is mythological," she says, "and my work is my way to address universal themes like the pursuit for glory, family issues, and the complexities of youth and adolescence".
Wine's simple and honest glory is enduring and reassuringly universal.
You glory in your refinement, and your universal education; yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful, as ever stained the character of a nation-a system begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty.
Floridian artist Von Cotu has taken our universal admiration for a controlled blaze of fiery glory and turned it into a new psychochemical dimension with his 'Pyro Chemography' photo series.
The search for a place to be somebody, the corruptive effects of power and glory, the destruction of an artistic soul are universals, unbound by time and setting.
Yet the movie presents no small challenge for Focus, the specialty division owned by NBC Universal that two years ago pushed its gay-theme "Brokeback Mountain" to the cusp of Oscar glory with eight nominations, only to see "Crash" win best picture.
He says that Melville "reaches straight back into the universal, to a blackness and sadness so transcending our own that they are undistinguishable from glory".
