Word: bravura
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FRANS HALS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The great 17th century Dutch portraitist's bravura brush-work and piercing insight still bring figures to startling life. Incredibly, this is the first major show devoted to him outside the Netherlands. Through...
FRANS HALS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The great 17th century Dutch portraitist's bravura brushwork and piercing insight still bring figures to startling life. Incredibly, this is the first major show devoted to him outside the Netherlands. Through...
...cloth. No fewer than five composers are credited with contributing to the noisy score; the choreography, some of it by Marius Petipa, is strictly cut and paste; the plot went down with the ship. But Le Corsaire provides the occasion for some florid dancing, especially in the hands of bravura technicians like Tatyana Terekhova and Farukh Ruzimatov or a poet on point like Altynai Asylmuratova, the company's reigning ballerina...
...clout in Hollywood, Martin Davis, 62, would never be mistaken for a movie mogul. He is a soft-spoken man who clearly lacks the bravura of his former boss, producer Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Davis once worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed...
Thomson is not the only member of the cast with a knack for stand-up comedy. Larry O'Keefe, who plays the sinister Cromwell, also has a penchant for firing off one-liners. Although he is always amusing, O'Keefe lacks the bravura that the role of the villainous Cromwell requires. His entrances, such as when he breezes onto the stage while chomping on apples, are always interesting too watch, but O'Keefe's performance is not convincing enough to leave anyone in the audience quivering in fear...