Word: bravura
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...next evening, MacGowran, now alone, was able with Beckett's music to still even the inimitable rudeness of a Parisian first night. He did it by a bravura demonstration of Beckett's simplest quality, often obscured by reverence for his profundity: namely, that he is another of the great Irish compulsive talkers. There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's. Suddenly a bony hand grips the listener's forearm, the bleary eye comes close, the words begin...
...third of the Metropolitan Museum's monumental exhibitions in honor of its hundredth anniversary, 19th-Century America. comes prepared to outdo the previous exhibitions in claborate display, quantity and splendour. With the bravura of technicolor and wide screen, the museum puts hundreds of paintings and sculptures among a setting of period furniture and decorative art with craftsmanship and detail stripped from design today...
Chicago and University Hall shared the large similarity of being radicalizing experiences for many left liberals. Police overreacted with great (and, for them, tactically stupid) bravura. Not only that, but the issues involved at Chicago and Harvard, were, in the first instance, liberal ones, and, in the second, issues that liberals could endorse in theory if not in practice...
Thanks primarily to the considerable charm of the two leading players, the characters never get lost. Belmondo's boyish bravura and Annie Girardot's wily sexuality lend substance to a plot as insubstantial as California sunshine. The lovers first meet on the set of a Hollywood film in which she plays the lead. He has been commissioned to write a suitably romantic score "with a lot of fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing...
These moments of potency, though, cannot cover up the fact this show neither moves nor capitalizes on its greatest asset, the score, (Only Andre Bishop's psychiatry song is captured with the bravura Weill's music requires.) It is nice that the Loeb has gone to the trouble to revive Johnny Johnson, but how could they forget that it was only the music that caused them to remember this forgotten show in the first place...