Word: brilliante
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After nine brilliant years in office, during which he won plaudits as cheerleader-in-chief of this rusted industrial city on the Passaic River, James could be headed for a crash landing. The former high school track star, politically surefooted for 20 years, is trying to outrun an intensifying federal probe into his fund-raising tactics and his free-spending life-style. U.S. Attorney Faith Hochberg has peppered the mayor, his city hall subordinates and supporters with more than 100 subpoenas...
...news story, May 24, 1995) as if all parties concerned were simply delighted by the situation. In fact, the process was troubling and painful to many of Beverly's admirers, who will be left deeply saddened by her departure. As a result of the change, Harvard will lose a brilliant conductor and exemplary human being. At the most recent concert of the HRC, the spontaneous outpouring of support for Beverly from both audience and performers was moving tribute to her many outstanding qualities and a demonstration of support for her continued presence at Harvard...
Clandestinely brilliant and conscientiouslyunpretentious, Adam was destined to be discovered.Never the star, Adam always had his admirers. Mosteverybody I know who knows him wishes they knewhim a little bit better...
...talked eagerly, almost defensively, about the great classes, the brilliant students, the proud tradition. But you really didn't know if Harvard way any of these things. In fact, the best reason you could honestly think of for choosing Harvard was that Harvard had chosen you. So now you're here, and you're ready to find out what it all means...
...will do anything to get your attention. It's friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film scripts, the grandson of a Jewish store owner who becomes...