Word: brilliante
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...thing that stands out, of course, the staggering, brilliant feat of his life, was this consistency - creating a funny, interesting set of characters that we were still glad to see next to our cornflakes, even after 50 years. All of Schulz's would-be successors flamed out. Berke Breathed was brilliant in "Bloom County" for a while, then retreated from the strip after an accident and could never recapture the magic with his next try, "Outland." "Calvin and Hobbes," surely the postmodern offspring of Lucy and Charlie Brown, delighted (Schulz himself was a fan) until Bill Waterson...
...understandable that Dr. Bearing receives little attention from any personal acquaintances. As an extremely harsh but brilliant John Donne scholar, she has spent her life alienating colleagues, students and family with her arrogance. She is fiercely independent and is proud of her strength and lack of personal connections. Of course, Dr Bearing's attitude begins to change upon undergoing eight intensive chemotherapy sessions that leave her battered and vulnerable...
...Have you heard of Wilkie Collins? He was a contemporary of Charles Dickens, he was sort of a melodrama man. He wrote these amazing cliffhanger novels, like The Woman in White and Moonstone, which I think are brilliant. I don't think they're necessarily that influential but they really fire up the imagination...
...never spoken will echo each other's assessments, sometimes even using the same phrases. How is it that 500 people in a lecture class independently come to the conclusion that "the lectures are archaic, the head TF sounds like Marge Simpson, the midterm was hard and the professor is brilliant but incomprehensible...
...because, as that plot notes--updating MTM's practical feminism--it's rare for two sharp older women to show their stuff on TV, and Moore, 63, proves when she has the chance here that she's still one of the most brilliant and sadly underutilized comedic actresses around. It'd be great to have her back in prime time--please God, in a different show--and should that happen, we'd all wish her to break a leg. Just go easy on that capitatum...