Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent four years at Cheam, an establishment that tries to produce happy boys rather than brilliant students. Charles' parents did their best to see that he was inconspicuous there. They made sure he had a smaller sailboat than anyone else. One story, angrily denied by the palace, had it that Charles found his $2.80-a-term allowance so inadequate that he sold his autograph to augment it. There were dietary problems. Once, after a stomach upset, he told a teacher that he was "not used to all this rich food at home...
...defending champion was wily Tigran Petrosian, the former street cleaner who swept through the ranks of top chess players to win the world title in 1963. The challenger was bold, brilliant Boris Spassky, who closeted himself with a psychologist for six months to get in shape for the match. Their championship contest was only the seventh held in the past 21 years. The fact that once again, as in the previous six title matches, both men were from the U.S.S.R.* attests to the country's domination of the game. In team play, the Soviets have won every World Team...
...standoff; one expert described it as a battle between "the young tiger who jumps on his prey and the old crocodile who waits for the right moment for the decisive blow." Then, in the crucial 19th game, Spassky quickly went to the attack and, with a flurry of brilliant closing moves, crushed the old crocodile...
Limitless Variety. Cranko has gone the mandate one better. He has given Stuttgart not only a superbly knit, brilliant young company but has also played on his dancers' strengths to form a style that is like none other. At any given moment in a typical Cranko ballet, the stage bristles with a seemingly limitless variety of movement. Instead of bloodless, assembly-line precision, the Stuttgart's 38-member corps is more apt to suggest a 38-ring circus, with a panoply of gesture and stance that dazzles the viewer...
Hello Out There? Ten years ago. in his first novel, Evan S. Connell created a brilliant portrait of one inhabitant of this psychic heartland, Mrs. India Bridge, mother of three, wife of a successful Kansas City lawyer. Written as a sequence of linked vignettes, Mrs. Bridge showed a remorseless accuracy and a comic sense powerful enough to reduce its subject to her feckless gist. (In the final scene, she has managed to get stuck inside her own garage. She is last seen tapping on the car window with the ignition key as she calls, to no one, "Hello? Hello...