Word: acclaimed
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...there was no resentment in Kulash’s eyes last Friday as he played to a capacity crowd of frenzied fans at the House of Blues. After all, just two weeks earlier, his band, OK Go, released their eponymous first album to resounding critical acclaim. The disc debuted in the top spot on Billboard’s Heatseeker Album chart and their lead single, “Get Over It,” is shooting up through the Modern Rock chart. And he has since patched up things with Andy quite nicely. After the yo-yo incident, he claims...
...favorite sport right now is demonizing Lula - and his platform is, indeed, full of expensive, perhaps fiscally risky social programs - he insists that he's not out to wipe away the free-market reforms and fiscal discipline that won Brazil's current president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, so much international acclaim...
...fact, excluding God, Abraham is the only biblical figure who enjoys the unanimous acclaim of all three faiths, the only one (as the song in the cab suggested) referred to by all three as Father. In theory, this remarkable consensus should make him an interfaith superstar, a special resource in these times of anger and mistrust. And since last September, interfaith activists have been scheduling Abraham lectures, Abraham speeches and even "Abraham salons" around the country and overseas. A new book called Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (William Morrow) by Bruce Feiler, author of the best...
...a.k.a. DJ /rupture, “so I’m incredibly picky about buying records.” Thanks to the Internet, though, /rupture has quickly become a household name among fans of bleeding-edge dance music. His bootleg mix album Gold Teeth Thief, which met universal acclaim last year in staple publications such as The Wire and Vibe, has been downloaded by thousands from /rupture’s Soot Records website (www.negrophonic.com). Some consider it one of the best DJ mix albums ever made...
...Whoever is appointed must be a known quantity,” Buell said. “It was important to us that her work had received a high level of acclaim and achievement from the outside world...