Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the snake-bitten Wildcats only 0:28 to score as Bob Gould beat goalie Jim Craig, who was brilliant as he stopped 40 of the 46 shots he faced. But their lead was orief as the Terriers' Gary Fay tied it up less than a minute later...
...problem confronting West German authorities was chilling. A brilliant nuclear physicist with a sure knowledge of how to build the atom bomb was apparently consorting with leftist ideologues and terrorists responsible for such deeds as the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe last June. Was it possible that Dr. Klaus Robert Traube, the absentminded, tousle-haired son of a Jewish dentist who had committed suicide in 1936 rather than go on living under Nazi rule, had passed on secrets to his radical friends...
...absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify it as absurd; yet as a very definite part of human nature. Notable examples of this sort of humor/social commentary are Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle, and Thomas Pynchon's brilliant Gravity's Rainbow. A notable failure of this genre is Thomas Bernhard's The President, currently...
...publication is aimed at college professors at Harvard who secretly masturbate. Seriously, a demographic survey showed that our readership is just behind that of The New Yorker, which either means that we have a brilliant readership or that the people interviewed are psychopathic liars...
...character in a Jane Austen novel. An "unassuming mother of four" who dotes on a "quiet life in the country surrounded by horses and dogs," she tramps over for tea in her sensible shoes and serves modestly to swell a scene or two, mostly by making other people look brilliant. But how to turn her into a heroine...