Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come freighted with unrealistic expectations. Therefore, summits should be held regularly. "We want them to become routine," says McCurry, "so that they lay the groundwork for getting business done, not the place where the business is done." If Clinton follows through, he may be able to fit in another glorious summer holiday in China next year...
...glorious moment in the annals of sports history when Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won their sixth NBA championship [MICHAEL JORDAN: THE END OF THE LINE?, June 22]. I haven't always been an avid Jordan fan. I once thought he was overpaid, that nobody was that good. But no more. He's turned playing basketball into an art form. He is the Lord of the Hardwood Floor, a unique athlete and classy human being. We've seen basketball played with perfection by the greatest player ever. JOHN L. HORTON Norfolk...
...will cost tens of millions of dollars more than Giuliani projects. Yet the mayor who squeezed the city's squeegee men is unlikely to give up his castle in the sky over a little ridicule. Perhaps he's just spooked by all the sci-fi movies depicting his glorious city being swamped by tidal waves, squashed by meteors and incinerated by alien space ships...
...this isn't about accolades; this is about soul. This is about that glorious mezzo-soprano, the gospel growls, the throaty howls, the girlish vocal tickles, the swoops, the dives, the blue-sky high notes, the blue-sea low notes. Female vocalists don't get the credit as innovators that male instrumentalists do. They should. Franklin has mastered her instrument as surely as John Coltrane mastered his sax; her vocal technique has been studied and copied by those who came after her, including Chaka Khan in the '70s and Whitney Houston...
...must be free, not to save the world in a glorious crusade, not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain, but to practice with all the skill of our being, the art of making possible," Clinton said, quoting from a favorite poem...