Word: superbness
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...McManama and Dave Hynes have hung up their Harvard jerseys for good, but they continue to play superb hockey, now clad in the red, white and blue of the United States team in the Group B World Hockey Tournament in Graz, Austria...
...turn of the 17th century, made for Orthodox Jews whose religious laws forbade them to touch pasteboard decks at Passover. Silk and cotton or plaited straw were inlaid into the cards to reproduce gay theatrical costumes in their original fabric, like the 17th century Pulcinello opposite. The superb min-chiate (or tarot) cards done in the 15th century by Bonifacio Bembo for Filippo Visconti, Duke of Milan, are so elaborate in their detailed painting, embossment and gilding that they could seldom, if ever, have been used...
Doing Poulenc perfectly requires voices of absolute clarity, but the acting of Lowell House's singers--nearly all Harvard students--and Edith Marshall's superb directing were more than enough compensation. It would have been hard to improve on Kerry McCarthy as the title feminist, Therese (when she changes her sex she becomes Tiresias), staring in astonishment as her breasts turned into green and blue balloons and floated away. Thomas Fuller matched her as her husband, demanding his dinner ("he only thinks about love," she observed) or showing off the 40,049 babies he had made by himself...
...back in his home base of London-is convinced that he has "an exceptionally good picture." It is scheduled for release in the U.S. next fall. He believes that some of Jane's changes actually helped improve the movie, and that her acting for the most part was "superb." It is also true that he "covered" himself with supplementary scenes in such a way that he can cut out Jane's verbosity in the editing wherever it gets...
Most of the coaches said that UVM and Wyoming are about even in jumping, and according to a Colorado team member, the Buffalos, with their three superb Norwegian jumpers, "aren't going to worry if they're only seven points down after the downhill...