Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America) "smarmily loving" and feminist Germaine Greer "an absurd Australian giantess." Not to be outdone, Arendt declares Margaret Mead "a monster" and Vladimir Nabokov "an intelligent show-off." Her 1957 take on Norman Podhoretz, critic, editor and later author of the confessional memoir Making It: "one of these bright youngsters with bright hopes for a nice career." Only three years later, it is "little Podhoretz, already soooo 'tired' like the proverbial Jewish waiter...
Goaltending: B+. Many expected junior Tripp Tracy to shine after the premature departure of Aaron Israel to the Philadelphia Flyers' ranks. He's done well, but only in the Bright Center against Brown (28 brilliant saves in a 4-1 win) has he sparkled as per his freshman year in Crimson colors...
...remember Dom for his quick smile and his bright, demanding mind beneath his Marine Corps hair-cut," Dewing said...
Like many bright kids with a talent for things digital, Mark Abene (as he's known to his parents) decided early on that computers were going to be his ticket to stardom. Raised in a working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, he used his $300 Radio Shack computer like a magic carpet to cyberspace, staying up all night to explore the mysteries of the worldwide telephone grid. Phiber had a gift: computers yielded their secrets to his prying fingers like jewels to a safecracker. Eventually, he dropped out of school to pursue his education in the online world...
...balanced-budget amendment (or BBA, as it's called) is a promise masquerading as a policy, so naturally its chances are bright. It pledges fiscal discipline, but only tomorrow -- which in the world of the federal budget never comes. Passing this "do-nothing amendment," says Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, "will let us proclaim victory, vent built-up public pressure and withdraw once again from the fight for a balanced budget." For even if it passes, as Kassebaum says, "circumventing it will be routine...