Word: outdid
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...CONSPIRACY (HBO) In a year of high-profile Holocaust dramas (ABC's Anne Frank, NBC's Uprising), an understated movie about a meeting in which Hitler's lieutenants planned the Final Solution outdid them all. Not a shot was fired, but the cool bureaucratese with which these officials rationalized mass murder showed how language can be humankind's most insidious weapon...
...article "The Poetry of Pastry," on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud [ART, July 16], I was stopped by a word very fitting but never before imagined. In describing Thiebaud's painting of pies, Hughes wrote of "coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits." Your critic outdid himself with that one. As a columnist for a small-town newspaper, I appreciate the need for a word that really fits. I've made up a few, but wingpits conjures up a physical tickle. Hughes is a treasure. JEANNE FRESHWATER Nehalem...
...best aspect of the musical was, surprisingly, its music. Benjamin D. Scheuer ’04 and Timothy B. Urban ’04, the talented first-year composers, really outdid themselves. Though not all the songs were engaging, several were musically interesting and catchy, such as “Mansy’s Rant,” “The Art of War” and “Just One Man.” By far the best song of the production was the main theme, introduced during the Prologue, and incorporated throughout the play...
...most sophisticated programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply for doing a couple of funny parodies of MasterCard and Monster.com spots. Both appealed smartly to voter cynicism about the major parties (and corporations), but neither outdid your average sneaker-company...
...most sophisticated programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply for doing a couple of funny parodies of MasterCard and Monster.com spots. Both appealed smartly to voter cynicism about the major parties (and corporations), but neither outdid your average sneaker-company...