Word: feat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Getting Profit on the air was no simple feat. Part of the credit for rescuing the show from a lengthy development hell goes to executive producer Stephen Cannell, who funded the pilot and was able to persuade initially reluctant programmers at Fox to pick it up. Over the years Cannell has mounted an incredibly wide range of dramas--everything from Wiseguy to the less cerebral The A-Team and Silk Stalkings. Initial ratings for Profit were weak, but Cannell thinks he can maintain his track record. "I broke all the rules with The Rockford Files,'' he says, referring...
JESUS On covers of the three major newsweeklies at once. The feat ties him with Magic Johnson...
...musical atmosphere. In fact, all the songs on the album, from the proud, soaring Too Close to the confessional Face to Face, have the earthy intimacy of top-notch blues. Along the way, Houston also turns in a patient, slow-building, ultimately satisfying rendition of Amazing Grace--an impressive feat, since the song has been covered so exhaustively by other performers that it's nearly impossible to find a fresh take...
...Christopher John Farley. "All the songs on the album, from the proud, soaring 'Too Close' to the confessional 'Face to Face,' have the earthy intimacy of top-notch blues. Along the way, Houston also turns in a patient, slow-building, ultimately satisfying rendition of 'Amazing Grace' -- an impressive feat, since the song has been covered so exhaustively by other performers that it's nearly impossible to find a fresh take. It's Motown with angels' wings, and gospel at its finest -- taking something secular and making it divine...
Nice of him to offer. But if human dignity has much to do with chess mastery, then most of us are so abject that not even Kasparov can save us. If we must vest the honor of our species in some quintessentially human feat and then defy a machine to perform it, shouldn't it be something the average human can do? Play a mediocre game of Trivial Pursuit, say? (Or lose to Kasparov in chess...