Word: bravura
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...fact that Streep and co-stars Sting and Tracey Ullman are able to break through the film's hard crust of mediocrity is a tribute to their collective talent and bravura. Brilliantly manipulating a spectrum of emotions from pastoral innocence to manic depression to pulsating sexuality, Streep may very well clinch the third Oscar of her career as the little--lost--activist. Once again, her most appealing characteristic is her chameleon-like control of facial expression. In one of the film's most fleeting but poignant moments (and probably the only one in which Baker's off-the-wall pacing...
...there were any lingering doubts about the deftness of the new leader of the Soviet Union, his performance in the interview with TIME should lay them to rest. He displayed bravura rather than boiler plate, and his performance was rich in the raw material of Kremlinology. Soviet-affairs experts all over the world will devote much of this week to a painstaking analysis of Mikhail Gorbachev's comments. They will be looking for insights into his personality and Delphic hints about the policies he intends to pursue...
Today his style is still pure, and his commitment to ballet as strong. But his life has fleshed out. For one thing, he has embraced America with gusto. Now he runs his own company, American Ballet Theater. He speaks bravura English, full of vivid slang and the silly puns that Russians seem to love. "Let's see, how American am I?" he asks. "Well, I'm not a Yankee fan or a Forty-Niner, and I don't like Coca-Cola or pink shirts. But I love television, fast cars and corn. That's pretty American...
...being normal. Sheila is clever enough to keep up with Brian but is essentially undistorted. She feels a mother's love. At the end, while Dale plots and scurries to transform their life, Channing goes about her daily routine. She demonstrates that in art, as in life, the real bravura performance can be quiet fortitude...
After emerging from a nearly four-hour meeting with Gorbachev in the Kremlin, the lawmakers responded as though they had sat through a bravura performance. House Speaker Tip O'Neill gushed, "I was tremendously impressed. He appears to be the type of man who would be an excellent trial lawyer, an outstanding attorney from New York. He's a master of words, and a master of the art of politics and of diplomacy...