Word: superbness
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...most encouraging news was the play of the freshman midfielders, Westfall and Caitlin Fisher. Westfall especially was superb at times, frequently managing to eschew defenders and chip the ball into open territory. At one point she won a loose ball away from a rush of three Aggie players. Still a young player, she drew more criticism from the sidelines than anyone else, which means she is only going to get better...
...more coherent times in which he was raised. He may be a hit man, but he's a cultivated one. He claims to read books and listen to symphonies; he manifestly loathes yet loves the volatile Wesley. This is a great, understated performance, wistful and funny, by a superb actor, and maybe one that will win him the Oscar he has so long deserved...
...natural pagans. Everything favors this: the delicious climate of the coasts, where most of us live; the dramatic and seductive landscapes of pounding surf and golden sand; the tanned bodies strutting; the food (some of the finest and most inventive in the world); and the wines, which are superb...
...strong perhaps, given the cast of public characters at the time, but it was not all that far from the truth. As David Nasaw's superb new biography, The Chief (Houghton Mifflin; 687 pages; $35), makes compellingly clear, Hearst was the most powerful, the most self-centered and the richest media baron in the world. He controlled newspapers that reached 20 million readers, a news wire service, magazines, newsreels and feature-film companies and radio stations. Each enterprise was tied to the others, creating "synergy" before anyone had heard the word. Hearst said he was serving the nation, but what...
...People who are familiar with [Ceder's] scholarship say that she is a superb teacher and has earned a strong reputation," he said. "She is interested in both the teaching and administrative ends of this work...