Word: superbness
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...fascination with other people of power, like Mao Tse-tung, Kissinger stocked up on personal information about world leaders. He also supplied stories about the Ivy League, both good and bad, which the boss relished. Muskie twitted Carter about his inept fly casting but praised him for superb fly tying. Rusk bent to Kennedy's appetite for humor. Ordered to track down and fire a leaker, Rusk traced the culprit to the Oval Office. "I can't fire him, Mr. President," phoned Rusk. "It's you." They both roared...
Ibsen attacks this Janus-faced samaritanism and also takes on the dilemmas of pride versus resignation, of profit and progress versus human interest. If played straight, this show could be rather sanctimonious. The speeches about lives based on lies are heavy handed even in Cantor's production, but the superb cast and quick pace play up Pillars farcical aspects. Props such as loud ties, when sacal scenery and an office suspended in mid air, beguile the audience...
...understand. They accepted the fact I went to Harvard, and laughed at it, and moved on." One ex-con shared the Saturday night chores with him. "It was very slow, so he brought a chess board with him...He'd learned to play chess in prison, and he was superb. I'm a lousy chess player, and he would best me every time. But we'd play for hours, chewing tobacco, which he'd supply one week and I the next...
...recruited by several colleges, but picked the ivy of Princeton. Sidelined from the women's basketball team by a knee injury during her freshman year, she put in long hours helping to manage both the men's baseball and women's basketball teams, while attaining a superb 3.7 out of 4.0 average as an English major. By her senior spring, she was awaiting acceptance by several law schools. But three months ago, a student-faculty committee at Princeton, after a hearing, found the honors student guilty of one of academe's most serious offenses: plagiarism...
Third-seeded Grossman and Seaver won with some breathing space, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, but Cornell's Jeff Charloff-Brad Rosenstein combination took its match to the outer limits as Beckman and Wheeler squeaked by on superb volleying efforts in a third-set tiebreaker...