Word: acclaim
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...wily victim. It's also a good movie in Hollywood epic style: a precise, conventional melodrama that teems with acute observations on the behavior of besieged people in ever more extreme circumstances. Last night, when Polanski's name was announced, cheers could be heard. Scorsese rose in acclaim. A camera caught Nicholson, applauding robustly. Whatever jokes might have occurred to Martin and his writers' entourage, he kept them private...
Smith wrote The Autograph Man in the midst of the widespread public acclaim for White Teeth, but in spite of the commotion, she says she found that no writer can get away from the lonely task of writing. At some point, she says, “you just go home, and nobody calls...
...only has Christopher P. Taylor ’92 done both, he has also emerged as one of the great young American pianists, garnering several major awards and considerable attention for his masterful approach to contemporary music. Taylor gained recent acclaim for his performance of “Vingt Regards,” which has been called some of the most complex and difficult music ever written for piano...
...last round of the 1993 competition was dominated by Rachmoninoff concertos, but Taylor impressed the judges with his interpretations of the Brahms concerto in B-flat major and Bach’s concerto in d minor, and received wide acclaim for the resulting recording. He saved Rachmaninoff for an encore, when he played the “Etude-Tableau...
While serving as chair of the history department Kirby received acclaim for the appointment of several senior female faculty members...