"He had a terrific week of practice and I'm excited about seeing him," Martz said of Covington.
Also, Aaron Hartzler's "Rapture Practice," a terrific new memoir about growing up gay in a fundamentalist Christian home and community.
He created the comedy-drama of "Ally McBeal," but with "Boston Public" (Fox, Mondays at 8) he tries to do for teachers in a Boston high school what his terrific dramatic series "The Practice" does for lawyers.
It's a terrific time saver, and in practice it has helped me avoid falling into the trap of unlocking my phone and getting trapped in the Bermuda triangle of Instagram/Twitter/Facebook checking.
"I'm not a terrific player," she said, acknowledging that she practices only five or six hours a week, mostly Brahms.
In his terrific book "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell writes about the importance of practice and, specifically, the necessity of completing 10,000 hours of practice in a particular field to become proficient.
"Five minutes into the first practice, she dove for a ball and made a terrific pass to Sheryl Swoopes," Chancellor says.
In practice this whole system (which is called 4XMotion) is absolutely terrific.
"Dewey remains a great firm with terrific lawyers," said Peter Zeughauser of the Zeughauser Group, a consulting agency for law practices.
"She was a great kid, a terrific student," Mr. Greene said on the telephone from Brooklyn, where he now practices law.
