Word: gloriousness
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...built of shoe boxes?the show was designed by his niece?are original sketches and magazine pages featuring his shoes, clothes by some of the designers with whom he has worked, a video clip of the mugging scene in Sex and the City and shoes?lots and lots of glorious shoes...
Minutes since the Class of 2003 first entered Harvard Yard beginning four glorious years of (relatively) carefree collegiate existence...
...elegy: halflings like the crossovers will never tickle the desire to pilot something enormous and fearless. Maybe it's only a matter of time before the massive SUV rigs go the way of three-martini lunches, cigarettes and, one fears, Big Macs. But it's been a glorious ride. --With reporting by Melissa August and Eric Roston/Washington, Sean Gregory/New York, Alison Onianwa/Fort Lauderdale, Adam Pitluk/Dallas, Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...reader catch his breath. The tone is spot-on; the ever-present sense of doom hovers cloudlike throughout, as befits a novel of war. Roberts manages to depict the war realistically and beautifully, reminding us that actions have consequences, that war and death are often far less glorious than propaganda would have them be. The official canon largely skirted the implications of war, preferring a simplified tale of good vs. evil. Roberts refuses to shy from describing the realities, from reluctant soldiers and simple pragmatists to heroes wracked with self-doubt and pity...
...There are plenty of theories: it takes us back to the dark days of the Challenger disaster; it refocuses our attention on the risks, often glossed over, of any space program; it reminds us of just how simultaneously terrifying and glorious space travel must...