Word: bravura
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...Irving Berlin." But really "I've got to have him"; this two-part song from "Miss Liberty" itemizes the domestic indulgences a wife, then a mistress would lavish on the man they share. Starting sassy (a younger Eartha Kitt) and growing by turns mellow and desolate, Wilson gives a bravura performance the more remarkable for its emotional precision...
...This is far from ordinary mainland movie fare. Shot on a scale few Asian filmmakers have attempted, China's first disaster picture, Crash Landing, assumes a Bruckheimeresque bravura. Modeled loosely on the 1970 disaster epic Airport, this reworking and its often realistic digital effects suggest China's sense of cinema as solid commercial entertainment has arrived. The film is a wake-up call to the country's domestic industry and should set alarm bells ringing in the rest of the world...
...suddenly, a skittish country of post-traumatic stress, shaken from what so recently seemed an unshakable bravura. Postings culled from websites (including this one) and newspapers? letters to the editor show a populace ready to spring into some yet to be determined course of action. What form that action takes has already become a potent point of debate. We want revenge, but we are torn by the idea of war - each "bomb the suckers back to the stone ages" email follows hard on the heels of melodramatic pleas to "let there be peace on earth...
...moth-seraphs." That gives him just the intuition needed to sleuth out a murder case involving a chic photographer (Colm Feore) of the Mapplethorpe stripe. The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director of Eve's Bayou...
...running for political office, Nader is also answering the most important complaint about his previous modus operandi--an overreliance on lawyers and lawsuits. Important social-policy decisions should be made by the voters and their representatives, not by unelected judges. So now Ralph is saying, with Buchananesque bravura: You want the voters to decide? O.K., bring...