Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could eas ily have felt a twinge of memory. Weissenberg bore a strong resemblance to a younger pianist named Sigi Weissenberg, who had made his U.S. debut playing Chopin with the New York Philharmonic 20 years earlier. Alexis even had some of Sigi's pianistic traits-triphammer virtuosity, brilliant tone, a briskly commanding approach to a score-but they were tempered with subtler shading and a surer sense of structure...
...spring pageants at Vassar. Still, he has a strong sense of place, and he uses the azure skies and limpid Mediterranean to give the story the cast of eternity and overtones of legend-in-the-making. In the final hallucinatory segment, he makes the screen a place of brilliant anguish, when time present and time past mix like ouzo and water until neither is what...
...only as a brilliant sideline that he designed the first cast-steel, breech-loading cannon, which gave France, in the War of 1870, its first taste of Krupp-built firepower...
...traces Lowry's return to Mexico with Margerie, just before Under the Volcano was finally accepted for publication. In Dark As the Grave, we meet some of the characters who appeared in different form in Under the Volcano, and we discover the often mundane source of what had seemed brilliant invention in the earlier novel. The Consul's mistranslation of the sign "Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan" as "We evict those who destroy" was, Lowry admits, his own careless error, not a conscious subtle distortion...
...Crimson, which has a history of alternating brilliant and miserable games, will have to shake off Saturday's performance and bounce back to its former style of play if it is going to defeat this fast-improving B.C. team...