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...show's chorus, made up of the only graduates in the cast, offers a fine complement to the show's great leads. The choreography of the opening and the pirate scene during Isabella's first aria are excellent. But too often members gesturing seemed vapid, aimless and irrelevant. This inability to sustain convincing activity behind the leads greatly hurts an otherwise good performance...
...spark of brilliance. Despite the weakness and discordance of the orchestra, she held the melody and retained the inflexions of the song. Unfortunately, her flair for the dramatic deteriorated slowly throughout the play. Teasing, seductive and convincing in the first act, her gestures and movement became less spirited and aimless by the final scene. Freidenfelds made an alluring and exciting Carmen, but she did not have the stamina of Bizet's heroine...
...with Cousin Sarah's cork leg, then ramifies: she had a great-uncle whose daughter ran off with a trombone player, who had a half-sister who . . . T.R. Pearson's skilled and artful variant moves in great, loopy spirals of anecdote, so that every now and then the apparently aimless stagger of narration swirls briefly to within sight of the original, stated objective. In the case of CRY ME A RIVER (Henry Holt; $22), this is the murder of a cop in a Southern town, told bemusedly by one of his colleagues. This sixth novel by the author...
...R.E.M. is too resourceful a band to bog down totally in such melancholy musings. Proving that a so-called alternative band can keep its edge after conquering the musical mainstream, Automatic for the People manages to dodge predictability without ever sounding aimless or unfocused. Buoyed by a lush weave of chiming guitars, muted strings and oboe, Stipe's moody vocals float over the music like leaves drifting across a dark pond. The songs, which tend to start slowly and build momentum, shimmer and swirl with bittersweet melodies and riffs that gather rather than hook. Nightswimming, which circles around a cascading...
Grand masters who 20 years ago would not have dared carry his coat -- the younger ones would not have been tall enough -- now publicly call his play aimless and amateurish. One Russian grand master advises patronizingly that Fischer must "realize that chess has changed in the past 20 years." World champion Garry Kasparov notes the "low level" of play in the match. "Incredibly low," says international master Alex Sherzer, with more than a trace of disgust...