Word: bril
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general approach designed by Nathans has since been used by other scientists to map the DNA of organisms that are far more complex. The institute also cited Nathans for his bril liant discussion of other possible applications of the enzymes to genetics...
With an aptly symbolic hand, the bril liant Rumanian director-designer Liviu Ciulei has erected a high mesh screen across the middle of Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater. All scenes of institutional ritual occur behind it. Before it is a leafy ground of freedom where the high school children escape to their for bidden trysts and utter the long and some times lustrous thoughts of youth...
...responded in fine style by suing Paramount for breach of their contract. While the fur flew, May was bogged down by the tortuous process of editing nearly 1.5 million ft. of film. The movie is fractured, disorienting, out of control. There are fleeting moments of quirky insight, even of bril- liance, but they serve to make the whole even more disconcerting...
Murray Kempton is sometimes bril liant in his perceptions of the angry prides and prejudices and the different worlds that met in Justice John Murtagh's New York City courtroom. But The Briar Patch is weirdly overwritten. Kempton's high prose style often so veneers the drama that even the simple facts of the case become difficult to follow. The language sometimes seems a travesty of James or Gibbon undertaking to describe Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Kempton simultaneously affects engagement and disdainful detachment, and the result occasionally leaves him drifting over the events in a kind of rhetorical...