Word: superbness
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With the grace of a�Ginsu-knife salesman, Donald Trump mixes advice--"Go with your gut" and "When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades"--with self-aggrandizing outbursts, like declaring that his dealmaking is so superb he "could negotiate peace in the Middle East." He is echoed only somewhat less obnoxiously by his co-writer, Bill Zanker. Thankfully, Trump stops short of listing the powerful women he claims to have slept with. "If I did, this book would sell 10�million copies," he says, adding smugly, "maybe it will anyway." Unfortunately, he's probably right...
...Luckily, the actors’ superb body language surmounted the script to skillfully convey each patient’s individual insanity. For instance, the painfully long smiles of depressed nurse Norma (Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10) and her fluid movements in the opening monologue presaged the abrupt jumps from one emotion to another that would occur throughout the play. Unfortunately, Bendorf sometimes delivered her lines with a nagging rhythm that reduced their effectiveness...
...high-profile play. Director Anna C. Smith ’09 and producer Max A. Hume ’09 made clever use of low-tech stage equipment in the set, designed by Smith and Stephany Y.Z. Lin ’11, and kept the focus on the superb leading actors...
Clutch hitting, superb defense, sharp pitching, a buccaneering spirit and more luck than any team deserves have lifted the Rockies from obscure awfulness to America's best-kept baseball secret. "It's a dream come true," first baseman Todd Helton wrote on his blog. "It's tough to put into words...
...perspective, Harvard is absolutely superb in terms of research, but I don’t think we do as good a job as we should in teaching undergraduates,” said Co-Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Douglas Melton, who was a key player in the development of the Life Sciences curriculum that integrates chemistry and biology and marks the beginning of the road for many a freshman...