Word: superhumanize
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...October 21st Lucinda Williams concert at Somerville Theater was an eclectic mixture of quiet integrity and hard-edge rock sensibilities. The thoroughly polished diamond-in-the-rough performance was filled with superhuman guitar solos and riffs setting off Williams' contrastingly sweet and achingly clear voice. The concert was not just a performance but also a journey into Williams' musical roots. The night began with series of her more packaged songs, during which Williams herself appeared disenchanted. As she moved away from the pop and plunged into bluegrass and blues, the crowd, like clockwork, was set electric...
...Babe Ruth's called home run. "As humble as he is, his wanting to do it and forcing it are about as close as he'll ever come to calling it. He wanted to hit it that day, and he did," LaRussa said. "To me, it was literally superhuman...
...Coupe de Monde is saving the nation from cultural humiliation and putting the blame for the fiasco where it belongs: on the rotten state of international cycling. "The whole thing just stinks," he says. "The intense nationalism, the publicity and the big-money sponsors have pressed riders to achieve superhuman feats, and many have turned to performance-enhancing drugs...
...personal relations with colleagues, family and friends, Lenin was relatively open and generous. Unlike many tyrants, he did not crave a tyrant's riches. Even when we strip Lenin of the cult that was created all around him after his death, when we strip away the myths of his "superhuman kindness," he remains a peculiarly modest figure who wore a shabby waistcoat, worked 16-hour days and read extensively. (By contrast, Stalin did not know that the Netherlands and Holland were the same country, and no one in the Kremlin inner circle was brave enough to set him straight...
...Clinton camp insisted on it, and no wonder. The most painful moment in either campaign came in watching George Bush and Bob Dole struggle feebly to adapt themselves to this alien venue. Bill Clinton glided through the town meetings, reveling in the chance to display his almost superhuman empathy. But Bush and Dole were older gents, from a generation that considered reticence a virtue and self-exposure a weakness--not, in other words, town-meeting material. They had the stunned look of cavemen thawed out from the frozen tundra and suddenly dropped into a Las Vegas casino. Bush...