Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Book X of the Iliad, Homer writes of the Thracian King Rhesos: "His chariot is a masterwork in gold and silver, and the armor, huge and golden, brought by him here is marvelous to see, like no war-gear of men but of immortals." But these are more than gorgeous works of art. The elaborate figures depicted by and on these objects, and the stylistic themes they reflect, give historians their first direct window onto Thracian society, commerce, religion and, in at least one bawdy applique depicting copulating newlyweds, sexuality. Poets and warriors, indeed...
Anne Marie Ambros came on in relief of Fischetti but fared no better. The first batter she faced, Franzese, dropped a gorgeous bunt in front of Ambros that began a perfectly executed squeeze play. The bunt single scored Wills and moved Amberg to third, putting runners at the corners and staking Harvard to a 3-0 lead...
Blake carried the momentum of the first set win into the second. Blake's opponent began serving and volleying in the initial game, and took the first point to go up 15-0. On the next point Blake hit a gorgeous topspin lob for a winner for 15-15. On the next two points a huge forehand pass and an unplayable service return gave Blake two break points. The freshman squandered one break chance, but took the game with a spectacular topspin forehand taken...
...master. Like any good Imagineer, Comstock must not only talk to the animals (and plants) but also put his vision across to the bosses. As he says, "You gotta sell somebody on takin' some chances!" The sales pitch worked, and Animal Kingdom is also a Vegetable Kingdom, gorgeous and peaceable...
...overture, one was struck by O'Toole's witty and well-timed delivery of a monologue about his boyhood intellectual prowess (calculating the trajectory and position of the airborne football instead of ducking). In a play full of paradox, the second scene, "The Banality of Evil," concludes smugly with gorgeous poetry...