Word: brilliante
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...punk band is to unveil blinders from its listeners. Call it the punk rock meaning of life or the punk equivalent of "The X-Files's" conspiracy theory. No matter how you see it, though, brandishing your mantra, basically shoving it down the ears of eager listeners awaiting the brilliant album to follow, is unnecessary...
Charismatic and brilliant, Laudor saw his daily struggle as a war of TV channels. There was the Suicide Channel, with its images of slit wrists, Nazis, himself falling out of a window, and then there was the Calm Station, a cabin in the Alps, green pastures, still waters, souls restored. Both occupied the screen simultaneously, and sometimes it was only with the greatest of efforts that he could relegate the extreme visions to a corner, reduced, as it were, to a picture-in-picture presence, with reality flickering in the middle. Once Laudor could count on his father Charles...
...Rigoberto, an antisocial anarchist and cultural conservative who sounds like another overheated Austrian, the Belle Epoque critic Karl Kraus. Or perhaps Vargas Llosa's alter-Egon, used to seduce the reader. Rigoberto coos about the fleshy pleasures and fulminates against vulgarity and cant. He dismisses all art described as "brilliant" and rejects all ideologies as "leveling forms of oppression that are generally worse than the despotisms against which they rebelled...
...into the natural world along paths that have no reasonable compass bearing and that don't lead easily back to the comfort of pavement. Drop your trail of breadcrumbs as you venture into The Lost Grizzlies, a long, moody essay, or The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness, a strange, brilliant book of short stories...
...process of dismantling Utah, and they did it with their defense. Defensive artistry and intelligence have been the keys to this Chicago team for several years. In big-time, highly contested games, the Bulls have always begun by taking away what their opponents want to do; by playing brilliant, aggressive defense; and then, when they have done that, when their opponents are floundering because what worked all season long no longer works, the Bulls have slowly and systematically begun to exert their own will. Thus their big games were rarely shoot-outs. Nor were they always artistic, or if they...