The fuss is in the flavors: there is a stir-fried-rice dish with escolar and Chinese sausage that is superb; a kind of spring roll — "tiger salad" — that is more Vietnamese than Chinese and so herb-fresh it almost jumps off the plate; and a mind-blowing assortment of pickles and other little savories.
Action research of this kind is a superb form of continuing professional development (CPD).
"He must have been a superb student of the kind of American fascination with names and powerful families," Mr. Burling said.
Together, they formed the kind of superb partnership of ambition and generosity that has, from the very beginning, built MIT's strength, raised its aspirations, and amplified its impact.
The only consolation is that this final show, organized by the art historian James Meyer, is superb, filled with the kind of art that the late Colin de Land, the gallery's founder, championed: formally democratic, conceptually against the grain and immersed in life.
"Chris Burden: Extreme Measures" at the New Museum is a superb survey, but also a kind of transfiguration.
It features more than 150 superb color plates depicting every kind of canid and detailed facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, morphology, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and conservation status in the wild.
One of the enormous and incidental pleasures of Andrew Haigh's superlative drama 45 Years is the way it presents us with two superb actors absorbed in the kind of roles and script that don't come along too often.
But never mind: it is a superb film, possessed of the kind of inspired simplicity that is very difficult to achieve, and is genuinely "indie" in its soul — perhaps the most indie movie to have had major awards success in living memory.
