Word: glorious
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...riding IT around downtown in a few years, IT really wasn’t worth all of the advance press. The mystery that surrounded IT for a year attracted wild speculation from dorky nerds and nerdy dorks alike—people who hoped and prayed that when the glorious day came, the product would justify all of the hours they had spent in IT chat rooms and IT bulletin boards...
...Pyongyang's propaganda machine?now on the Net!?bravely soldiers on, reporting five or six major news events every day. (Recent samples: "Many Goat Farms Appear," "Rare Squid," "Reception Given at Russian Consulate General.") Now comes a ray of hope?no, make that a beacon of an incontrovertibly glorious future! In August, Kim visited a coal-mining machinery factory at Ranam, in the country's north, and found that production was 12% above target. (Which isn't bad considering that lots of factories in North Korea are idle because there are no spare parts.) Last month, a full-fledged Ranam...
...self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does not aim at permanence with his sculptures, but by attempting to defy time they succeed in accepting it and even reveling in it. Like human beings, his works fester and rot. Roth has no interest in being the glorious artist whose work is completed with the final stroke of the chisel. He encourages the changes that time inflicts as his work takes on a life...
...double album, the sum of Vaughan’s first Montreux performance and his triumphant return in 1985, represents the first comprehensive collection of those celebrated live performances. Needless to say, the compilation is simply glorious. Vaughan was as adept at funneling rip-roaring blues through his guitar as he was pulling out smouldering riffs from its strings, and the first Montreux outing provides a brilliant sampler of his stunning—if then still raw—talent...
...smartest students are clearly distinguishable from the class dregs. Class rank will reintroduce a healthy dose of competition between students, reinvigorating the incentive system that grade inflation has dulled. Employers will have an easy time making distinctions between students, and Harvard will once again be considered the most glorious University in the land...