Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engineering department's marvel of money preservation is an almost stereotypical professorial type: Tall, white-haired and distinguished, casually dressed and perched in the standard messy office of an academic...
...occasional offensive weakness has been finishing them; the scoring slump around the first of December makes it clear that putting shots on net doesn't automatically lead to goals. But a 5.25 goals-per-game average is among the best in the country, and Tomassoni has to marvel in his forwards' talent...
...Richardson remains a marvel; we feast on a face that reveals everything with the arch of an eyebrow or the sag of a cheek muscle. His calculated temper tantrums are as believable as the silky menace in his most understated lines ("I couldn't possibly comment"). This is TV's scariest, most alluring villain since J.R. Ewing...
...success is due in great part to Liam Neeson's outstanding performance. Neeson presents a remarkably full-bodied character; the charmer, the rogue, the womanizer, the profiteer and the hero in him all get their due. Neeson is ably supported by Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. Kingsley is a marvel as Itzhak Stern, summoning up fierce, quiet dignity and sly humor, while Fiennes is terrifying and complex as Amon Goeth...
...until the present, where Rollins' "curiously reformist" remarks are just a public statement of privately acknowledged fact. Instead of investigating, prosecuting and "re-run"-ing affairs in New Jersey, Safire endorses "a few good reporters, preferably Black and street-smart, to lay out this bipartisan system for all to marvel...