Word: brilliante
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...Brilliant professors and truly horrendous professors do probably receive appropriate ratings, but most teachers who do not fit either extreme (which probably amounts to most of the professors at Harvard) never really get a proper evaluation...
...celestial being who would become Satan had many names in heaven. Most of Western tradition identifies him as Lucifer, the Morning Star, the most brilliant of all the denizens of the empyrean. He is Sammael, according to the rabbinical literature of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., highest of those who flit around the throne of God, created above the seraphim and distinguished from others by the fact that he possessed twice the maximum allotment of wings: 12. To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures...
...displacement. This "Freud effect" is not unlike the quick, coarse expressiveness of Frans Hals, but less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers" of the title are not real sumo contenders, but fragmentary pictures of them pinned to the wall.) There are amazing feats of sheer visual dissection in this show, such...
...physical production is much the same, but the elaborate set movements mesh better. Designer John Napier has added one brilliant flash of wit. After Norma's epic mad scene ("I'm ready for my close-up"), a scrim falls and reveals an image of Close, looking girlish and made up in the beestung-lip style of the 1920s. It is, chillingly, the only time one sees Norma's legendary screen face...
...walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny Opera teeters on murder: "Come says Jack let's knock him on the head, No says Guy let's buy him some bread." The happy ending is cold comfort: a ruck of bony children trying to sleep in a shantytown. This is brilliant and powerful stuff, but it is hard to imagine reading it to a child. Some adults may feel, under the baleful influence of Sendak's parable, that it is hard to imagine having a child...