Word: brilliante
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...leads to the payoff, when an agent tells the breathless owners, "I would list your house for ..." It may not be realistic (how certain can an appraiser be that a half-bath is worth exactly $20,000?). But it's brilliant TV, allowing us to indulge a little jealousy (say, of the lucky bastard who bought a Manhattan apartment for $90,000 in 1990) and vicarious money lust. And it demonstrates how the housing boom changed the way people look at their homes: as an expression of their financial savvy rather than their creative selves...
...candidate. His aides are debating whether to compete in a costly straw poll in Iowa in early August. Some believe that a strong Thompson showing could knock McCain out; others say privately that Thompson's late start means he won't do well in Iowa. "He has had a brilliant little run here," says an outside adviser, "but unconventional campaigns eventually have to turn conventional. We'll see if they survive the turn...
...controversial Big Donor Show, in which three ill patients were supposed to compete to receive a kidney, turned out to be a publicity stunt to raise awareness about organ donation. Some patients waiting for transplants appreciated the idea, like one woman, who told the AP, "I thought it was brilliant, really." SCORE...
...20th century saw the rise of Modernism and brilliant but difficult and allusive writers like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. (Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in Poetry magazine.) Poems became less like high-end pop songs and more like math problems to be solved. They turned into the property of snobs and professors. They started to feel like homework. "It's thought of as a subject to be taught instead of simply an art to be enjoyed," says Christian Wiman, Poetry's editor...
...getting complaints from several students that I disrupt the class and make learning difficult for them. And I was like, ‘What? I am one of the best students in the class. I actively participate and I bring up ideas that the professor finds intriguing and brilliant...