Word: successful
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...become a true Heldentenor: he lacks the sheer force to surge over Wagner's complex orchestral writing, his German diction is heavily Latinized, and his phrasing belongs to the Mediterranean, not the Teutonic, school. But as an example of pure vocalism, his Lohengrin was a stunning success...
...laugh. And we laugh because we know we have to die. Well, it's a good way of spending the time in between." Author Umberto Eco, 52, has long contemplated the many kinds of laughter, including recently the all-the-way-to-the-bank kind. The awesome success of his medieval-monastery mystery, The Name of the Rose, has turned the scholarly Italian professor of semiotics into an international literary icon. During an autumn promotional tour of the U.S. last week, he delighted an audience of New York City fans, but deftly declined to interpret the meaning...
...four of the extraordinary baseball teams braced to play off this week qualify as flabbergasting. But while the Tigers and Royals have sampled defeat, and the Padres have done more than that, only the Cubs have stood for disillusionment, and their first success in 39 years has wrought a national catharsis. For Cub fans actually from Chicago, where this way of strife is passed down like a pickax from father to son, it must be gently annoying to find so many noble sufferers going public, besides George Will and the other political columnists breaking out in their regular rash...
...upon a second marriage, to a younger woman. On the sort of momentary impulse that springs from a lifelong yearning, he decides to take her to New Mexico to meet his father, Sam Avery, a semiretired film director with a gift for popular appeal. The son has won critical success for his magazine articles and books (which Arlen slyly depicts as exhaustive looks at narrow topics, resembling less his own work than that of his New Yorker colleague John McPhee); he is too constrained, too inward looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass...
...Among the Believers (1981), his most recent book of nonfiction, V.S. Naipaul displayed a few early symptoms of self-parody. The Muslim fundamentalists he met on his travels through Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia sorely tried his patience. They did not seem impressed by his example of success: an Indian born and raised in Trinidad, then a British colony, who had won a scholarship to Oxford and afterward, as an admirable writer, earned much favor in Western eyes. All that those mullahs and ayatullahs seemed to want was to make trouble and pray. Naipaul's report on this journey...