Word: brilliante
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...With almost four centuries’ worth of experience and a pantheon of brilliant graduates, it can be easy to anoint this institution, and to thus accept its occasional indictments as gospel. I would submit this resignation becomes still much easier to do when Harvard has not had much in the way of criticism for us—how dare we question a system that has so rewarded...
...spectacular birds, mounted on the wall in a somewhat less flashy display box, are dozens of shells of Cuban land snails. The perfectly spaced rows and columns draw attention to the mesmerizing symmetry and subtle differences in shading among the shells. Each turn in the gallery provides something more brilliant, exotic, and impressive than what lay behind, from the graceful sweeping plumage of the Resplendent Quetzal to the full zebra pelt mounted on the wall. The ostentatious collection of blue butterflies provides examples of a hue more brilliant than even a Mark Rothko painting; the display of iridescent beetles looks...
...never, ever doubting himself. W. gives Bush a climactic wrinkle of copelessness, but the movie is mostly content to motor on familiar tracks. Like its central character, it seems never to have questioned itself about its mission or even asked if it had one. For this normally crazy-brilliant auteur, the last and lasting...
...assimilation of the role originated by Patricia McBride was aided by James Whiteside’s able partnering. Whiteside later appeared in “Ein Von Viel,” a modern ballet choreographed by Sabrina Matthews whose main innovation was bringing a grande piano onstage and a brilliant musician, Freda Locker, to sit at it.The piece d’occasion fared much better. Set to Chopin, “Rhyme”—a world premiere choreographed by Viktor Plotnikov—began with slow, silent movement, with the dancers captured in spotlights like snapshots. This...
...budget was knocked sideways because of the losses incurred at just one state-run bank, Credit Lyonnais. The German state's track record in banking isn't much better. Regional governments own some of the dogs of the industry, like WestLB, and even the federal government isn't a brilliant manager. Last month, on the very day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, state-owned KfW sent a check to Lehman in New York for $466 million - earning itself the title "Germany's dumbest bank" bestowed by the biggest circulation tabloid, Bild-Zeitung...