Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to admit he's pretty good at it. In The Rainmaker, playing Rudy Baylor, a young, undertrained lawyer trying his first case, he shows a nice sneaky knuckler, tracing an erratic path toward the strike zone. In Good Will Hunting, he pitches a sharp curve ball as a brilliant autodidact, confused by his own genius, alternately angry and vulnerable. Yet whether Damon has a high hard one, a true star's blowback fastball, is not a question these movies permit him to answer...
RETURN OF "BRILLIANT PEBBLES...
...veto of the Clementine II program that would target an asteroid with a space probe [VIEWPOINT, Oct. 27]. The veto had nothing to do with asteroid indifference and everything to do with the fundamental weaknesses of the program. Clementine II is a thinly disguised version of the discredited "Brilliant Pebbles" missile-defense program of the 1980s, which posed major technical and treaty-compliance problems. The Air Force in 1997 did not want in its budget this Son of Brilliant Pebbles, masquerading as an asteroid-research program. Vetoing Clementine II was the right and responsible thing to do. NASA is already...
...mentioned in one of his rants about press accounts implying that Kennedy's Harvard intellectuals were decamping, abandoning the White House to a bunch of Texas yokels: "It's just a damned lie is what it is. Why, I got this little ole boy, Trillin, who wrote me a brilliant speech called 'The Spirit of St. George.' Smartest little booger you'd ever hope to meet. He can write circles around those Harvard pissants...
Deprived of an effective narrator, Berendt's brilliant anecdotes are enslaved by the "trial plot," which the writers have chosen to reign supreme over the storyline. The movie starts to play like a day at the zoo: look at the goofy Southern people! Strong personalities like the volatile hustler Billy Hanson (played awkwardly by Jude Law) dissolve into mere plot devices or cheap gags. The score doesn't help (Billy Hanson enters room, cue fore-boding music. Drag queen walks down the street, cue sultry saxophone...