Word: brilliante
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...that whenever Ted Turner announced he was launching or buying some new enterprise, the expert consensus was reflexively dubious -- Turner was profligate, driven by vanity, maybe reckless. But now that every one of his cable-TV channels -- TBS, CNN, TNT, the Cartoon Network -- has turned out to have been brilliant, the pack instinct among journalists and Wall Street touts has pretty much reversed itself. Now Ted Turner is infallible. When it was announced last week that his company would buy Castle Rock Entertainment, an A-list movie-production company, and New Line Cinema, a scrappy little quasi-studio, for more...
...than the cars in front of me, I allowed myself to think that the enemy was vanquished. But no! The cars were in fact more slothful than their more massive counterpart. Nevertheless, as my opponent gave the smoking bus some room before he hit the gas, I executed a brilliant maneuver worthy of the most savvy of Cambridge drivers--the "blinkerless-half-in-half-out-cut-off-from-the-right-lane...
...first half of the 20th century brought more excavations and more cataloging -- but still only scratched the surface of what was to come. By 1950 the field was dominated by J. Eric Thompson and Sylvanus Morley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Both are still revered as brilliant archaeologists, but some of their theories have been overturned by new evidence. Among their now outdated ideas: that the city centers of the Classic Maya were used primarily for ceremonial purposes, not for living; hieroglyphic texts described esoteric calendrical, astronomical and religious subjects but never recorded anything as mundane as rulers...
...Stew's, they arrive (sometimes by tour bus) and worship the experience of wheeling oversize carts down a 20-ft.-wide aisle that meanders through the 10- acre complex like a yellow-brick road. As a result, Leonard has been hailed as a monument to family enterprise and brilliant marketing by everyone from chicken toughie Frank Perdue to Ronald Reagan to Tom Peters, author of A Passion for Excellence. Companies such as Wal-Mart and Wendy's have sent executives on pilgrimages to study Stew's methods...
...knives hardly ever stuck, Clinton said, but the friendship did. The President brought his oldest friend, who was also his wife's colleague at the Rose law firm, to Washington with him. One of Little Rock's most brilliant litigators, Foster was trusted by the Clintons, says Arkansas lawyer Joe Purvis, "not just for one or two projects, but leaned on in almost every facet" of their lives. As deputy in the counsel's office, he was among those who attracted much of the criticism in the early days of the Administration over insufficiently vetting nominees and the abrupt firing...