How come none of these exemplars of television excellence stood the test of time, while Home and Away limps along like a three-legged (flamin') mongrel, regardless of quality, creativity or anything approaching believability?
The Tehran Symphony Orchestra used to be an exemplar of Iranian cultural excellence.
Also, another exemplar of N.P.R.'s excellence, Terri Gross, plumbed the depths of my story in the magazine this week about Kashmir and the questions of war and peace between India and Pakistan.
The exemplar for this kind of excellence — the man everybody points to as the superlative attorney general — is Edward Levi, who served under Gerald Ford.
But if "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" — a PBS game show for children from the early 1990s — is the exemplar of the form, we're not looking at something with a long tradition of excellence.
The pursuit of excellence.
The top Cup of Excellence (C.O.E).
And there are pockets of excellence.
He expected nothing short of excellence.
"It's a system of excellence".
