Word: bravura
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...favorites was from the U.S., but when the ice cleared, the best in the world were two Californians, Brian Boitano, 22, and Debi Thomas, 18. (He is from Sunnyvale, she from San Jose.) In the freestyle final, Boitano zoomed from fourth place to first on the strength of a bravura jitterbugging performance to Gershwin and the blues. Thomas "just got inspired" after watching Boitano, and the next night, instead of playing it safe to protect a slight lead, she came on strong to a combination of Duke Ellington and ballet music in a program that contained four triple jumps, including...
...seemed a bravura performance, worthy of praise all around. But over the past month, at a series of querulous meetings, Dartmouth's faculty of arts and sciences has unanimously condemned McLaughlin's reign. A special faculty committee drafted a 16-page critique that bitterly complained, "The administration of the college is insensitive to and not knowledgeable about education concerns and (the faculty's) proper and necessary role in the governance of the college." In lay language: McLaughlin had given his orders and done his works without first conferring with the faculty, a serious oversight at an intimate, old-line school...
...cheers drowned out the jeers. Thatcher finished up with a triumphant attack on the divided Labor Party. It was a bravura performance, and she easily won the subsequent vote of confidence, 379-219, a victory that the government hoped would finish the affair. Not everyone was convinced. A Harris poll taken afterward showed that only 29% of British voters believed she had told the whole truth...
...epiphanies, especially in a flash of crosscutting that magically transplants an African plain, where Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating her. Everyone seems reluctant to let loose here, taking a cue from their too reverent boss. Perhaps...
Despite that bravura performance, the bleak outlook for the Marcos regime remained unchanged. "It's as if the central nervous system has broken down," said a U.S. policymaker. "Orders are issued at the center, but nothing happens in the provinces." The situation did little to convince the Reagan Administration that Marcos could meet what has emerged as the principal U.S. demands: military reform, open elections and an efficient economy freed from the corrupt grasp of Marcos' cronies. The ultimate fear: an eventual Communist takeover that would result in the loss of a longtime ally and deprive the U.S. of critical...