Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windows to waiting on tables. "The first thing I learned," he says, "is that the exigent speak poetry. They do not speak the language of newspapers." He soon became backstage-struck and signed on as busboy at the Second City, Chicago's famous improvisational company. "It was a superb, superb training ground, and their rhythm-the rhythm of action, the rhythm of speech-influences the way I write...
With Hunt's goal, the momentum shifted to Harvard as forwards like John Marchand looked as if they owned the ice. But superb net play by UMass freshman Tim Hegarty held the Crimson's lead to a single goal...
...wife driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection of his ability to withstand all efforts to draw him into the mainstream of life. In the end, they conspire with the superb Tom Courtenay to reveal Simon not only as a hypnotically fascinating theatrical figure but also, perhaps, as a cautionary archetype...
...chance is bankrolled by ABC: it put up $1.5 million to stage the fights, which provided enthusiastic, if not technically superb boxing. There were no knockouts in the six-match card; some overmatched pugs clung desperately to the ropes and their opponents in an effort to stay on their feet and in contention for the next fight...
...dressed in the majesty of centuries," wrote Plutarch, having gazed on the Acropolis above Athens. "It contains a living and incorruptible breath, a spirit impervious to age." Ever since the superb temple of the Parthenon was built atop the Acropolis in the 5th century B.C., it has survived the mutations of history. Conquering Romans turned the Parthenon into a brothel; Christians made it an Orthodox church; the Turks converted it to a mosque, and then used it as a powder magazine-which exploded when hit by Venetian artillery in 1687. But nothing in the Parthenon's history has equaled...