Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initiative you can see in full flood now." Other people soon saw it too. Just out of RADA he won the plum role of Judd, the cynical Marxist student in Another Country -- a performance whose laser intelligence and subversive edge announced an actor at the start of a brilliant career. He would fulfill that promise when the RSC's Adrian Noble cast him as Henry...
...deduction for interest paid. In a world with no taxes, it would not make sense to borrow at 10% for an investment that will pay only 8%. If the tax system adjusts profits for inflation but not borrowing costs, such a topsy-turvy investment can suddenly become a brilliant tax shelter. If you believe in the free market, that makes no sense...
...vulgar. If Raphael was the epitome of grace among artists of the High Renaissance and Michelangelo the paragon of sublimity, then Giulio was all licentious facility. So ran the judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long look at the enormous Giulio Romano show that has been the city's main event this fall (it closes on Nov. 12) will have...
...this insensitivity that allowed Harvardians to evade the Vietnam draft with clean consciences and let the "hill-billies" die in their stead (a point made by James M. Fallows '70 in his brilliant essay "What Did You Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy...
...Boston, Historian Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) said the world now is a "tessellated pavement without cement." He was quoting something Edmund Burke said about Charles Townshend, a brilliant but erratic 18th century British statesman. Not bad, but somewhat mandarin. The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile. This age, thinks Lord Thomas, is a mosaic of fragments, with nothing to hold them together. Is it an age of brilliant incoherence? Yes. It is also an age of incoherent stupidity...