Word: brillante
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...astroturfs brillant green surface and black partitioning nets--which divide the cage into four areas--enable players to follow airborne balls better, while the inch-thick carpet provides a more reliable bounce than did the dirt floor, Paul A. Chicarello '82, a designated hitter, said yesterday...
Jeff Samsen--the Bruins freshman guard--shot a brillant 11-for-16 from the outside, and led all scorers with 26 points...
...game itself was not that different from the cagers' other contests this season. Harvard continues to vacillate between brillant and horribly erratic play, a pattern which has become, oddly enough, the most consistent thing about this team...
...real, a town called Montaillou, clinging to a mountainside in the Pyrenees in what is now southern France. The time is the beginning of the 14th century. The priest is Pierre Clergue, a clergyman who might have made Boccaccio blush. In French Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's brillant reconstruction, the reader learns how the villagers thought, ate, hated and loved-and even what they said to one another in public and in private. Such rare detail has made this lively volume a surprise bestseller in Europe...
...Yankees have nothing to be ashamed of, though. Thurman Munson showed his MVP fiber and capped a brillant series with four hits last night. Ken Griffey, a .330 hitter during the National League season, was laminated by Yankee breaking balls and finished up with but one safety in 16 trips. Fred Stanley proved himself a major league shortstop in front of one hundred million critics...