Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Los Angeles is exactly the sort of place where people will pay top dollar for something free and plentiful, he opened O2, an oxygen bar, which offers patrons a mouthful of oxygen-enriched air for $13 a hit (laced with lemon or lime, it costs an extra $2). Brilliant as it is, it's not as good an idea as the SunSpot, a round towel on which beach goers could rotate themselves to remain in the sun's direct light throughout the course of the day. Sadly, the towels never caught on, nor did the all-hemp suit Harrelson...
...American Ballet Theater (ABT), founded in 1940, is recognized today as one of the great ballet companies of the world, a reputation that its brilliant Saturday evening performance justly upheld...
...neither a treatise nor a text-book. Actually, no one is really sure what the book is. What can be said is that Ka contains a fascinating collection of stories at once comical, mysterious, unnerving and erotic, told by a brilliant modern narrator. The book actually reads like a post-modern Hindu campfire story. The fifteen sections of the book recount all the stories contained in the major theological and mythological texts of India, but Calasso does not assume any prior knowledge of the Rig-Veda, the Mahabharata or the like, nor does he linger on the stories' historical background...
That one number can never fully describe a career is as true of Dupuis as of anyone. He staked his place in Harvard lore two years ago, leading the nation in regular-season goals-against average (0.56) during Harvard's brilliant 1996 campaign, in which it won 16 consecutive games and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament...
...hate relationship. Was Stein "the best thing to happen to TIME," or had the People page "become prisoner to his maniacal destructiveness"? Was he "wacky and fun" or "flat-out obnoxious"? Even as a sportswriter, a role he has taken up recently, Stein continues to attract both cheers ("What brilliant commentary!") and catcalls ("His report on the Yankees sent me running for the Pepto-Bismol"). To help us--and you--better understand this controversial phenom on our roster, we decided to turn the tables and pose our readers' queries to him directly...