Word: brightnesses
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...sounds of ABBA, Vanessa Mae, and Phantom of the Opera filled the Bright Hockey Center as champion figure skaters dazzled and twirled at the 39th “An Evening with Champions” performances on Friday and Saturday...
People like Maureen O'Hare, whom I found shopping for shoes in the Sedalia Wal-Mart with her daughter Ashley Smith and bright-eyed 2-year-old grandson Traven. Sedalia is an old railroad town of about 20,000 people - a population essentially unchanged in the past 90 years. George W. Bush won two-thirds of the vote in Sedalia and surrounding Pettis County in 2004, and one of those votes belonged to O'Hare. But after years of voting for Republicans, she told me, she feels compelled to change horses. Of Obama, she said simply, "I think he would...
...students at Harvard are very, very bright,” he said. “Harvard has fewer anti-intellectual distractions than most schools...
...just as clear-eyed and compassionate in the telling. Fenfang hates the hushed anonymity of the countryside, where "people lived like insects, like worms, like slugs hanging on the back door of the house." She arrives in Beijing naive and thrilled, wanting to "rub up against" the bright city night. A job at the Young Pioneers Cinema sweeping up after moviegoers leads to a chance encounter with an assistant director who encourages her to work as a film extra. She is fully aware by this time that boorishness isn't limited to the countryside, and is sarcastic about the setbacks...
...ranging from the “Écriture Rose”—a 14-by-11-foot canvas covered in hand-reproduced texts of various origins—to the “Mariales” series—comprised of intricately-folded canvases treated with bright colors, forming beautiful and disorienting aperiodic patterns. For a long period, however, he sealed himself off from the public, becoming virtually invisible. Near the end of his career in public, the Times reports, Hantaï presented his work at “a noncommercial exhibition space in Paris...