Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans as having cut themselves off from one another, isolated with their own cars, their own garbage disposals, and own lives, totally independent and disconnected. Windows are used not as views to the outside world but as voyeuristic peeks into others' lives. Cinematographer Conrad Hall furthers Mendes' vision with brilliant use of color, making the typical suburban home a mystical and, at times, beautiful setting...
...with the score knotted at 0-0, and a pattern of , "close, but no cigar," already established, it looked as though this fast-paced game of near goals and brilliant saves was going to end in a scoreless...
With 1:57 left in the first quarter, Cornell's special teams unit then put on a clinic for its Harvard counterpart. Giampaolo kicked a 35-yard punt to the Cornell 27, and Vincent Bates then returned the punt 73 yards down the right sideline for a brilliant touchdown and 10-3 first quarter lead...
...England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...
...losing $1,000 a day. The newspaper Ochs already owned, in Chattanooga, Tenn., was almost underwater, and his personal debts were threatening to sink him and the large extended family he supported. His plan was to save the paper and himself by breaking into the big city market. With brilliant personal salesmanship and no little bit of financial finagling, he finally won the backing he needed. On Aug. 19, 1896, he announced on the front page of his newly acquired newspaper that his "earnest aim was to give the news impartially, without fear or favor...