Word: spectacularly
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...makeovers are about surface; bleached hair has dark roots. Skin's polite production might win listeners, but Love's displays of rude beauty, of a sad radiance that seems to come from a place beyond contrivance--those are the moments that make this CD spectacular listening. Just hear her morose, lyrical ramble over Erlandson's spare guitar on Northern Star; or the line in the enchanting Malibu when she breaks the song's sweet spell, growling, "And I knew/ Love would tear you apart/ Oh and I knew/ The darkest secret of your heart." This CD has pop skin...
Nine months after Princeton University began a chain reaction of financial aid increases at America's top colleges, yesterday Harvard joined the generous in typically spectacular Harvard style...
...From a spectacular high of 9337.97 in mid-July, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has zigzagged its way down some 1500 points, closing at 7795.50 last Friday--a net drop that rivals the 1987 Black Monday crash of 20 percent...
...million miles away, cost $1 billion, and for more than two years has surveyed the sun with spectacular results. This cosmic overachiever--about the size of a Volkswagen beetle--is the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, otherwise known as SOHO. Since April 1996 it has beamed back hundreds of thousands of remarkable images of solar eruptions and made dozens of scientific discoveries. It has also enhanced the ability of astronomers to predict and spot the powerful solar storms that produce auroras and cause power disruptions on Earth--as well as endanger satellites and astronauts in space...
...plan is not without advocates. The IMF?s prescription has so far been a spectacular failure; at this dismal point, what does Asia have to lose? MIT's Paul Krugman wrote in FORTUNE that such an admittedly desperate "Plan B" could be Asia's only way out, and when he learned Mahathir had apparently followed his advice, Krugman even wrote an open letter to the prime minister advising him of the many sinkholes along the path ahead...