Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Powell is once more in his element, this time playing the role of a brilliant amateur detective who combines the qualities of fearlessness and absolute self-confidence with the ability to handle difficult situations in a manner both charming and graceful. Although it is debatable whether Miss Roger's characterization is on a par with that of Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man," it is certainly true that she maintains throughout a certain vigor and sprightliness which lend color to the plot development. At no point does the interest flag, and the complexity of the situation holds the audience...
...childbirth at 22, Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua where he saw the elder sister, Isabella, in her own magnificent court. He was 47 she 25, already a brilliant, beautiful Latin aristocrat of the Renaissance. She made him promise to paint her portrait and he did a preliminary chalk drawing, which is now in the Louvre. He moved on to Florence and finally in 1502 into the employ of the "Bloody Borgia," Cesare, to follow for a year...
...accepting a portrait of John Reed to hang in one of her dormitories, Harvard has shown again, as she has so often in the past, that fine tolerance which is the hallmark of intellectual distinction. John Reed was one of her brilliant sons. He died for his faith in the Bolshevik revolution. It matters not that his political creed was in violent opposition to anything of the kind entertained by most Harvard men then or now. Harvard is not concerned with his opinions, but with the spirit of a man who gave everything he had in support of what...
...interview or posed for a photograph. His company has never joined either a trade association or a cartel or the NRA or a chamber of commerce. He had no bankers because he never needed them. The chemical industry is necessarily mysterious business but, with Allied's brilliant dictator, mystery was almost a fetish...
Shortly after she broke off with Orlov Catherine struck up the strangest of her partnerships-with Gregory Potemkin, one-eyed, clumsy, moody, brilliant. It was an alliance that soon ceased to be physical (Potemkin chose and dismissed her lovers himself) but remained intimate. Both profited by it; Potemkin to the tune of some 50 million rubles. They lived to see part of their dream come true: Russia mistress of the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russian frontiers pushed far into the west. But there came a day, when Catherine was 62, when she refused to dismiss her current lover...