Word: superbness
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...Canaille, Cassis, Opus 200, 1889, is a superb example. The day is fading. The tartans, or lateen-rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate...
...market; also like Grove, he is less certain about its consumer prospects. "At Amazon, we didn't know at first, and nobody knew, whether people would want to buy books online, and the same is true for whether people will want to ride these," he says. "Walking is a superb mechanism for getting around--I don't see it being replaced anytime soon. And for long hauls, driving is darn good too. The question is whether there's a middle ground, some intermediate zone where these would be better than all the alternatives...
Long-range shooting will remain a big part of the Crimson offense. Last year’s squad set a school record with 203 treys, leading the Ivy League in three-point percentage. Harvey led the way with a superb 41 percent from behind the arc, while Prasse-Freeman and Merchant were close by at 37 and 36 percent respectively...
...Javier Saviola has more serious problems at hand. The 19-year-old Argentine sensation is banging in goals aplenty for his Spanish club, Barcelona, in the world's best league, but he still can't find a place on the national side. Coach Marcelo Bielsa has an abundance of superb forwards to choose from (Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Claudio Lopez, Ariel Ortega, Kily Gonzales, Gustavo Lopez ... we could go on) and Saviola looks likely to sit out Korea/Japan. Still, he has time on his side. And history, too: five World Cups ago, another diminutive teenage prodigy with an unflattering nickname...
...market; also like Grove, he is less certain about its consumer prospects. "At Amazon, we didn't know at first, and nobody knew, whether people would want to buy books online, and the same is true for whether people will want to ride these," he says. "Walking is a superb mechanism for getting around--I don't see it being replaced anytime soon. And for long hauls, driving is darn good too. The question is whether there's a middle ground, some intermediate zone where these would be better than all the alternatives...