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It will be hard for a poet to surpass the poise and penetration of Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush," which is dated as being composed on the last evening of the 19 th century.
The "best wines of the new world can match or even surpass the great wines of the old world."
Commercial channels pour programs down from the heavens that match or surpass the products of the public broadcasters, who are too cowed to produce anything as homo-proud as the new Ellen , as racy as Brooklyn South , or as culturally subversive as The Larry Sanders Show . I ask you, what PBS newsman out-wings the liberal Peter Jennings?
for the average schmo" (Megan Rosenfeld, the Washington Post ). Reviewers predict the ratings for her series will surpass critic Robert Hughes' similar show last spring.
The New Yorker loses money--how much may even surpass perks as a topic of Newhouse gossip and speculation.