Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffmann agreed that "we have a brilliant junior faculty, and when such nation-wide searches put them on top, it would be unfair and stupid not to give them tenure...
...Harvard softball team was often-times brilliant this season, but its inconsistency kept it from a successful Ivy repeat...
Though the loss of seven seniors and a brilliant coach looms over next season like a gray cloud, another silver lining appears on the horizon...
Except story is not the end of this movie. It's a beginning, a pretext, for what is, finally, a brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism. The film has the bleached look of a carelessly shot videotape, with, occasionally, what Russell calls "very intense hits of color"--a Bart Simpson doll is one of them--burning through its low-contrast surface. This is how combat appears to us in the new technological age--no terrible beauty, just absurdity's flat, deadly record keeping...
...Stiffed is a brilliant, important book. Unlike Backlash, which felt at times like a compendium of statistics and a sweeping survey of popular culture, here Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty. These men talk to her as they have probably never talked in their lives before, and the rich and intricate tapestry she weaves from their stories is enough to make one rethink our entire Western value system. When she describes the family spirit and pride in their work of the men at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, shut down by the government...