Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy fact was, more than half of Harvard's players were freshmen or sophomores, and anyone who followed Harvard lacrosse had heard the rumors that Crimson coach Bob Scalise had attracted for the next season the finest freshman crop in recent memory...
...Maltese Falcon. Don't call it a thesis, but it seems that some of the most talented directors of American films have done their finest work the first time out. I'm thinking especially of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart...
...kidding about Weather Report. The Wayne Shorter-inspired group plays some of the most revolutionary, albeit plugged-in, jazz today, and it famous for giving a great live performance. Some jazz musicians I know in Philadelphia caught this concert last week and each acclaimed it as the finest night of jazz in years...
...sure, they must have destroyed illusions that Americans are all women or all hucksters who do little other than peddle levi jeans and watch La Verne and Shirley. But if they had done nothing more than showcase themselves over there as one of the finest college vocal groups this country has to offer, that would have been both valid and sufficient...
...guitarist-singer. He took the premier spot on the jazz, rock, soul and easy-listening charts. His name began cropping up on network TV. George bought a Mercedes. He was a star. How did success affect his music? If anything, it improved it. In Flight is his finest album so far. The material spans a wide stylistic range, from Benson's silky vocal on the Nat "King" Cole classic Nature Boy to the disco-danceable Valdez in the Country...