Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side of the net is serving. Plus we tend to do a little "chicken" victory dance after winning any point, to a loudly hummed rendition of Do the Hustle. Still, I'd have to say it was technology--the oversize head--that catapulted us to the ranks of truly brilliant Bad Doubles players...
...wall of silence" erected by Bill Clinton's personal attorney, David Kendall [NATION, Aug. 3], is probably the worst legal advice given to an American President since Nixon during the Watergate crisis. Kendall may be a brilliant attorney and a fierce negotiator, but he is no student of history. Stonewalling does not work. Kendall has allowed Clinton to back himself into a corner. The right advice is to come clean. Kendall has helped turn an incident that was equivalent to a minor Watergate burglary into a reason for impeachment. STEPHEN W. OSHINSKY Monte Sereno, Calif...
...being alone can be fabulous. Take care of yourself, think about yourself...but loneliness can eventually take its toll. Whom are you going to tell about your brilliant self-revelations? Whom are you going to share dinner with? Whom are you going to wander with in the galleries of the museums you stop by? It can be a little too lonely...
...some reason, from that moment on, the audience is on her side. "Once you fall in love with Mo'Nique," she explains later, "I can say anything." That includes energetic rants against Victoria's Secret's refusal to carry size 22. Though her material isn't brilliant, the former full-size model has a persona that's perfect for TV. And, conveniently enough, she's already closed up her comedy club in Baltimore, Md., to move...
There are previous period recordings of Schumann's symphonies (notably a superb 1994 set by Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band on RCA), but these performances are the most brilliant, penetrating and communicative. They may even force Grove, in the new edition now being prepared, to reverse its judgment...