Word: brillantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
McCoy Tyner finishes off a strong week with a six-day outing at the Jazz Workshop beginning Sunday. Tyner is another brillant planist who has gone far past the days when he played second to John Coltrane. This mostly romantic player will bring his usual stable of excellent back-up musicians and some new numbers to the Workshop...
...Proposition is still doing its hilariously brillant improvisational routines at 241 Hampshire St. in Inman Sq. Not even the fathead who sent in that note about "The Threepenny Opera" can deny that this is good. (By the way, keep those cards and letters coming in.) Tonight and tomorrow at 8 and 10; $3 this evening, $4 on Saturday...