Word: brilliante
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...still on guard. He wasn't completely committing. "I don't want to read about you in the press," he told Morris and Schoen. "I'm sick and tired of consultants' getting famous at my expense. Any story that comes out during the campaign undermines my candidacy." Morris was brilliant, Schoen knew, but erratic. There was an excellent chance he would flame out. So when Morris turned to Schoen for help in assembling the message team, Schoen recruited one that could survive without Morris. At the heart of it was Squier Knapp Ochs, a firm Schoen had worked with before...
...genius is the ability to hold in the mind two mutually contradictory ideas without going crazy, then Americans have had a brilliant year. The U.S. has just elected a man who it thinks either 1) may turn out to be one of the great Presidents or 2) may find himself spending a lot of his second term talking to his lawyers. Knowing that they had lost, conservatives began bitterly dreaming of Clinton--and/or his wife--being frog-walked out of the White House by a special prosecutor in a year...
Through flashbacks we see what Almasy is trying to remember--or trying to keep others from discovering. Brilliant and aloof, commanding many languages, he was part of a British cartography expedition in the Sahara. There he meets Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas), the cool, sure wife of a member of the team. Almasy is aroused and troubled by Katharine; even dancing, he stalks her furtively, as if she's not supposed to know she's in his arms. Almasy, a hoarder of his own secrets, may want to possess but not be known; Katharine may be tired of her cheery husband...
...world's art exists; this is especially true of the range of cultures outside the West, both old and modern, such as Aboriginal Australia, Oceania or ancient Egypt. The discussion of Japanese art, from its earliest beginnings to the 20th century, extends to 431 pages, and it is a brilliant feat of compression even at that length, without a wasted word. Moreover, every major subject has multiple entry points: individual artists, schools, national origin, techniques and so on. There's no art publication in existence that gives the reader such richness of detail and coherence of organization...
...thought that I would take the time to go through each of the five brilliant suggestions provided to students just so I could outline how helpful they really have been in creating the new way in which I will walk down the street and carry myself through this frightful urban environment. After all, being born and raised in New York City (is that urban too, Dean of Students' Office?) has in no way affected the way I deal with the Cambridge environment...