Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Popular wisdom holds that virtuosity on any instrument is a hard-won proposition, the product of years of painstaking study and practice. Despite the evidence of such performers as the pathbreaking American Maud Powell around the turn of the century or the brilliant Vienna-born Erica Morini, now 84 and in retirement, it also holds that the violin is properly a male preserve. But with age comes maturity, not mastery, and instruments are no respecters of gender. Although still young, today's crop of women violinists can already be judged on accomplishment rather than promise...
Senior Danny Manning, the NCAA Player of the Year, ended his brilliant career with a 31-point, 18-rebound and five-steal performance. He sunk his last two points at the foul line to to give the Jayhawks a four-point lead with five seconds left in the game...
Friday, 29--The 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul open without a hitch, thanks to tight security and promised political and economic reforms. ABC wins kudos for its "Up Close and Personal" segment on the country's leader Rae Tah Woo, entitled "My Brilliant Korea...
...Norrington's vigorous hands, the result was a revelation. The Fantastique, premiered in 1830, just three years after the death of Beethoven, is an opium-tinged odyssey through the composer's psyche as he pursued his mad passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its restless opening, brilliant ballroom scene, desolate pastorale, terrifying march to the scaffold and cackling witches' sabbath bloomed anew, while the 1839 Romeo et Juliette, Shakespeare transformed into sound, burst with hot-blooded vitality...
Part of the reason for this mistaken identity is that my very existence has to remain a secret to keep the government scientists off my case. I have managed it through a brilliant scam: practically everyone thinks I'm a puppet! Sustaining this conspiracy takes a few collaborators. My main partner is a onetime comic magician named Paul Fusco. He actually claims to have invented me. Sure, he talks like me, laughs like me, jokes like me, even sort of looks like me. But I'm 230 years old and he's 35, barely old enough to have...