It wasn't just that he was eager to leap into the arena with heavyweights like Mr. Newman and Mr. Hoffman but that he was willing to play the jerk, to assume the odious qualities so that the none-too-stellar characters played by his partners might appear ingratiating and wise.
Yet his presence at the company–and his none-too-stellar record as CEO from June 2007 until last month could prove a distraction for the new leader.
Its list of college competition winners was stellar, too: not just Plath, but also Joan Didion, Mona Simpson, Ann Beattie, Francine du Plessix Gray and Diane Johnson.
But Mr. De Luca's track record so far has been less than stellar, too.
And the golf was pretty stellar, too.
The writing, acting, and directing is pretty stellar, too.
While you are obviously here for the restaurant's namesake dish, the rest of the menu is pretty stellar too — try the nam khao tod, a crispy rice salad with generous slices of sausage.
The period-luminosity relationship for Cepheids made them the first "standard candle" in astronomy, allowing scientists to compute the distances to galaxies too remote for stellar parallax observations to be useful.
These three, too, fit the mold: stellar growth-and-earnings producers, and all white men.
