Word: brilliante
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...never follow trends. He is on his own trip - and this season the first stop was, briefly, India. Ralph is not a National Geographic -type traveler, either. He just teases his audience with a soupcon of the destination - in this case it was the old gold shimmer of a brilliant finale of evening dresses that recalled the fading sun setting behind a Jaipur palace...
...sizes up Liz instantly, with creepy accuracy: "New York, third-wave feminist, college educated, single and pretending to be happy about it, overscheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that has 'Healthy Body Image' on the cover, and every two years you take up knitting for--a week." In a brilliant bonding scene, Tracy takes Liz to a strip club and says she could learn from the dancers: "They know the window of opportunity's only open for a moment." Liz stuffs a bill into a persistent stripper's stocking, protesting, "This is for computer classes...
...really makes no sense, or has people sport bizarre accents for no reason, I sometimes wonder if it was done as an ironic homage to genre and I just didn’t get it. Questions like, “Is ‘Showgirls’ really a brilliant farce on adult entertainment?” or “Is ‘Gigli” about the way we portray lesbianism in modern American media?’ have tormented me forever...
...Sestak is a surprising candidate in many ways. He is a passionate speaker-not your usual stoic military man-who can wax overly melodramatic at times. His Navy friends describe him as brilliant but impossibly demanding. He has a sophisticated grasp of national-security issues, which makes his closely argued support for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2007 quite compelling. But Sestak spends more time on the stump talking about domestic affairs than foreign policy. Asked about health insurance at a house party in Middletown, he said he was very interested...
...known every First Lady going back to Eleanor Roosevelt. But forget them and Mother Teresa too. I think Ann Richards, who died of cancer last week at age 73, was the greatest woman I have ever known. The former Governor of Texas was electrifying, brilliant, loyal, tolerant. She was also exhausting. I am surprised Ann stopped long enough to leave this world. She loved telling stories. One of her favorites was about taking her darling grandchild Lily to see the Queen of England. Later Ann asked Lily what she remembered. "The Queen had lipstick on her teeth!" said Lily...