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...talent but feels he sometimes acts as if he, not Clinton, is President. "He sucks up a room," says an insider at State. "He's smart as hell, but sometimes you want to wring his neck." Albright's dilemma: Does she want a successful team player or a brilliant guy who has the ear of the Prez and the Veep--and might make...
...what about the heirs of Joyce and Stravinsky? Still doing brilliant work from time to time, to be sure. But broadly speaking, the energies of high modernism had played themselves out, and the ironic, self-conscious borrowings of postmodernism did not advance the cause much. Literature, the theater, classical music lost the authority to set the cultural agenda. Today the influence, the action, the buzz...
...Paris, where he soon after adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Le Corbusier, as his pseudonym. Jeanneret had been a small-town architect; Le Corbusier was a visionary. He believed that architecture had lost its way. Art Nouveau, all curves and sinuous decorations, had burned itself out in a brilliant burst of exuberance; the seductive Art Deco style promised to do the same. The Arts and Crafts movement had adherents all over Europe, but as the name implies, it was hardly representative of an industrial age. Le Corbusier maintained that this new age deserved a brand-new architecture. "We must...
Scott ended a brilliant four years with the Crimson with a truly spectacular and memorable weekend. The 81-77 and 111-63 wins over Yale and Brown, respectively, were the perfect swan song for the floor leader whose intangibles and defensive ability made him among the most underrated and dangerous players in the league...
Okrent--who went by the nickname "Oak"--wasdescribed as "brilliant" by his long-time friendDaniel M. Ring '99. Ring added that the CabotHouse physics concentrator was also a "renaissanceman...