Word: feat
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...endures in part because she evolves, as each little girl grows and as each generation changes. She has survived a sexual revolution, an army of imitators and a string of risky career moves and hairstyle changes. There was Barbie the stewardess in 1961, then Barbie the nurse (no mean feat, since 1964 was the first year she could bend her knees) and Barbie the astronaut. She apparently was completing medical school at the time, since this year she emerged as Dr. Barbie. "The toys that become classics are those that help children define themselves as they grow," says Mattel...
Schmitty took this apparently enlightened approach so far that he threatened to quit before making a run at 600 career home runs--a feat accomplished only by Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron--even though many baseball watchers thought Schmidt would reach the mark...
...remarkable feat is to make audiences believe at once in this woman's intelligence and her ultimate helplessness, so that they view her as her son does: with affection and even admiration despite her frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she serves a dinner of warm milk (hers liberally laced from a pocketbook flask) in an apartment without electricity, to the climactic reunion, when she arrives unkempt in a bedraggled housecoat and proceeds to exude glamour and sophistication from every pore, she makes life an adventure. Unlike the mother in The Glass...
Cornell earned its first Ivy title since 1954 last year, but the Big Red will have to play a whole lot of alumni games to repeat that feat this season...
Sloan says that meeting the demands of a difficult musical score while keeping in sync with the orchestra is no mean feat...