Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Annie Hall. This won this year's Oscar for Best Picture, but don't hold that against it. It's Woody Allen's warmest, deepest, and funniest motion-picture, and better than that, it's a tantalizing promise of more to come from a brilliant writer/director. The story of Woody and Diane. Alvy and Annie, two absurd, lonely people who cling to each other because they're afraid no one else will really see how special they are. Some classic sequences: Keaton stuttering, giggling, gesticulating outside an indoor tennis stadium, slapping herself in frustration, dithering enchantingly; Allen grimacing...
...Leger. Davis, as the chronology points out, was heavily involved in artists organizations, especially during the Depression, and campaigned for recognition of the political and social importance of art and artists. After the Depression, Davis developed some of his most important theories and settled into a style using brilliant colors, well-defined shapes and scattered words and numbers that the chronology describes as the "height of his career...
...Publish or perish' is a little too simple a way of explaining what happens," says Kiely. "What it means is that if you publish well, if your research is really very good, that can compensate for lousy teaching. But if your teaching is absolutely brilliant but you're not publishing anything, it's unlikely--there are a few exceptions--that it will compensate for the lack of research. So in that sense, when it comes down to a tenure decision, there is not equal weight given to both...
...brilliant play of Scott Walker at the New England Championships was obscured by the mediocre performances of other members of Harvard's tennis team, by the loss to injury of captain Todd Lundy, and by windy playing conditions at Amherst this weekend, as Harvard finished third in the tournament for the first time in--well, longer than anyone wants to admit...
Harvard lost its seventh match in 20 starts through the plowing power of one of the greatest greenskeeping crews that ever churned up the turn of any putting green. Brilliant greenskeeping crews may come and go, but Cuz Mingolla's anonymous four, aided by FFA-approved gouging, plowing and seeding equipment, can take its place in front of the field...