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The visual drama of the Impressionist breakthrough into color and light has sometimes been dimmed in the frequent telling and retailing.
Nash's breakthrough in game theory got him recruited by the Rand Corp., which was then a secretive military think tank in Santa Monica (its name is an acronym for "research and development").
New York recently featured this literary murder mystery as a case study in "breakthrough" marketing--its publisher, Viking, hoped to position it as a middlebrow hit, like Annie Proulx's The Shipping News . Reviewers aren't cooperating.
But the major breakthrough for the Malay economy was the triumph of rubber, when Singapore’s new garden director, Henry Ridle (“Rubber Ridley” to his friends, “Mad Ridley” to all doubting Thomases) had developed new planting and tapping methods and painstakingly spread his faith in rubber around the peninsula.
Only after his in-laws were cleared did Matisse make his Fauvist breakthrough in the summer of 1905.