Word: brilliante
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...have portrayed the Democrats as the party of a cultural elite-ivory-tower intellectuals and inside-the-Beltway bureaucrats totally alienated from the concerns of ordinary Americans. The redirection of populist resentment from top-hatted Wall Street businessmen to Chardonnay-sipping Washington pointy-heads has been nothing short of brilliant...
...power ploys with glitz, New York City energizes itself with a workout borrowed from academia: the intellectual war game, clarifying issues by talking them to death. The current fracas is the biggest since the obscenity debate over Robert Mapplethorpe's photography. It pits one of the country's most brilliant and respected critics against one of its most daring and respected choreographers. Arlene Croce is the New Yorker's dance reviewer; no American arts critic is more admired-or more feared. Bill T. Jones is a modern-dance choreographer; handsome and outspoken, he has always drawn extreme love...
...first time I really saw Harvard was in September, 1960," wrote Rudenstine, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1964. "I arrived...on a brilliant autumn day. I sat more or less motionless for two or three hours...I realized that if I failed to keep a rendezvous with this University, I would always feel as if I had been unwilling to test myself against the very best...
Goaltending: B+. Many expected junior Tripp Tracy to shine after the premature departure of Aaron Israel to the Philadelphia Flyers' ranks. He's done well, but only in the Bright Center against Brown (28 brilliant saves in a 4-1 win) has he sparkled as per his freshman year in Crimson colors...
With an impressive total of 14 films in eight short years, the early box- office success of Little Women, an Oscar nomination for The Age of Innocence and two or three movies -- due out this year, Ryder can think instead about the brilliant career behind and ahead of her. She has other things in mind too. "I'm one of those people who wanted to be a mom since I was five. But I don't know when it's going to happen. I'm not going to try, but I'm not going...