Former US president Bill Clinton, García Márquez's personal friend, was quoted extolling his "great heart and brilliant mind".
I was honoured to be his friend and to know his great heart and brilliant mind for more than 20 years".
The only color Victoria wore was near her heart: a brilliant blue sapphire brooch which had been Prince Albert's wedding gift to her. (Albert gave his bride the large jewel on the eve of their wedding and Victoria, in addition to wearing it pinned to her wedding gown, "was to wear it constantly during the Prince's lifetime," wrote Staniland).
It is also, as I discovered when I first saw the show in 2010, heart-stoppingly brilliant.
West's overcall of two spades warned about a possible weakness in no-trump, and the partnership maneuvered into hearts, a brilliant effort.
Click here to listen After playing a heart-stoppingly brilliant version of his understated track Retrograde, it would only seem right for the Mercury prize winner to be joined on stage by Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams for his excellent, if very slightly oompa loompa-y, rendition of Bills Bills Bills.
We will miss your warm heart, quick wit, brilliant smile, piercing telligence and kind words.
Their entwined lives lie at the heart of this brilliant inquiry into art, family and morality at the turn of the century.
Weekends are made for fresh coffee and fresh music, so we asked Mr. Jones, who is sensitive to both the time of day and to the passing of the seasons when he picks Starbucks music, to choose 10 songs for a Sunday morning — songs to be sipped and savored in the chill and brilliant heart of fall.
