Word: beholding
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...These foundations are a wonder to behold," says George Trentz wistfully as he stands before a row of crumbling concrete walls, virtually all that remains of the former Kaiser Steel Corp.'s mill in this town, an hour's drive east of Los Angeles. The plant, once 20 stories high and 100 yds. long, has been reduced to a ruin, and as workers with acetylene torches continue their cutting, Trentz watches the factory where he worked for years literally disappear before his eyes. If it were simply another smokestack victim of America's decline in manufacturing, it would just...
Fervent, foreboding music and feverish operatic voices accompany the progress of a black gondola, adorned with the head of dragon. It weaves though a dark network of water-bound caves, and soon we behold a dungeon--thousands of hands reaching out from behind iron gridding--and a hulk-sized executioner with a burnt head a la Freddy Kruger...
...insist on speaking in a vaguely English accent (even though the movie takes place in France), and others commit blatant Americanisms. As D'Artagnan, for instance, Chris O'Donnell (who looks absolutely idiotic with long curly hair) introduces himself as "Dartaynian," and is constantly awing us with his eloquence--behold lines such as "my rear is killin' me." Most of the time, I found that I was actually embarrassed for the actors: De Mornay, so believably evil in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle," for some reason makes us feel like we are watching her rehearse her "Musketeer" lines...
...spell. The rich costumes and haughty dance render this scene a true early Ralph Lauren moment. The Prince, dressed conspicuously in wedding white throughout the ballet, wanders off pensively self-absorbed. The Lilac Fairy greets him and shows him an apparition of the sleeping princess, and lo and behold, he falls in love. Heightening tension and passion between the Prince and his vision, the Lilac Fairy and the Princess' apparition, in a female-female pairing unusual for classical ballet, dance a beautiful pas de deux. Prince Desire tries to reach the apparition but the Lilac Fairy does...
...called the "Sorrow Songs"--the Negro Spirituals. The Singer of "My Lord, What A Morning" matched Marian Anderson at her best, and the beautifully disciplined improvisation on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"--boldly folding over the classical Spiritual rendition with the classical or high-style Gospel mode--was something to behold...