Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forbes' brilliant defensive play--16 saves--went for naught, as the Jumbo offense never got on track. The lone Tufts goal came with only 50 seconds left...
...Berger proved himself a fine minor portraitist of the hapless, tough-talking American male: the middleclass, victimized hero of the Reinhart trilogy, the used-car salesmen and small-time gangsters in Sneaky People. Little Big Man, his burlesque epic of the wild West, and Who Is Teddy Villanova?, a brilliant imitation of the private-eye novel, displayed a notable talent for satire...
...first half, Harvard showed moments of brilliant play, passing between lines and dominating areas. But those moments only came in spurts...
Through no fault of the author, Coucy as a result sounds a bit like a modern corporation president as seen by a tame biographer on the company payroll. On balance, however, her choice of Coucy is a good one. Her choice of the 14th century is brilliant, and her portrait of the period is exciting, artful and solidly based in scholarship. - John Skow
Philip Roth proved that New Jersey, summer camp and a claustrophobic family life could inspire brilliant satire. Whether they could inspire tragedy remained in doubt until Julia Markus addressed herself to the theme of growing up Jewish in Jersey City. Tragedy requires the decline of a hero, and Markus has invented one-however low key-in this somber, eloquent novel: Irving Bender, the son of East European Jews for whom the immigrant dream of success had come to nothing. "Irv's father drank and gambled and died," she writes in her terse idiom. "The mother got along...