Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defeating Yale, Harvard captured the Ivy League Championship, which had virtually been in its possession since the beginning of the year. The glitter of a new trophy, however, cannot dull the pain of losing the national championship to Princeton last weekend...
...best in the best of all possible worlds (Voltaire is parodying a certain strain of Leibniz). Keshet shows off his excellent voice in "It Must Be Me" and the last few numbers, while Little, as Cunegonde, displays the range and quality of her voice in the solo number "Glitter and Be Gay," in which she sings several impressive scales...
...classical music's golden girl. When she performed, her blond tresses flew, her body undulated to the music, and the passion in her playing stirred the hearts of her listeners. Du Pre's marriage in 1967 to the equally charismatic pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim added the glitter of sex and glamour to her already glowing mystique. Then in 1973, at the age of 28, she was forced to retire by the onset of multiple sclerosis. When she died in 1987, admirers, particularly in her native Britain, canonized her as a musical genius and lamented her premature loss...
...sending the wrong message. "This is not how the survivors want the Holocaust to be remembered," says Roman Kent, chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. "The image and memory of those killed have been put in the background, and all I hear about now is the glitter of gold." Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, voices a similar concern: "Survivors who have claims deserve to bring them forward, but it's at a heavy price. The next generation will believe it's all about money...
...term "mixed medium," an artist who layers his canvases with acrylics, oils and elephant dung last week received Britain's top art award, the Turner Prize. CHRIS OFILI, born in England to Nigerian parents, said a trip to Africa inspired him to use the excrement, sometimes decorated with glitter and beads, in his otherwise brightly colored paintings. Originally, he imported the pachyderm parcels from Zimbabwe, but now he uses the more readily available domestic variety he finds at the London Zoo. Proving how multifaceted feces can be, Ofili rests his works on resin-coated balls of the stuff...