Word: bravuraed
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Riverdance was bold from the beginning, owing nearly as much to a Broadway chorus line as to Irish tradition. It opened in Dublin early last year with a cast of 26 dancers and musicians (the company now numbers 85). The production's signature is scarcely controlled energy and bravura. Legs fly, but arms too are often loose and vividly expressive. A piece for the male corps called Thunderstorm is a consistent showstopper. It is performed a cappella, the tapping, stamping feet providing the accompaniment. As the dancers traverse the floor, the rhythm they kick up resembles a storm...
THERE WAS FIDEL CASTRO, WEARing for the first time in Havana a blue suit instead of his trademark fatigues, on his feet for five hours praising both socialism and multinational corporations in a bravura if not altogether convincing performance. And Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Prime Minister of Russia, taking questions in Moscow's White House on topics ranging from the extent of government corruption to his relationship with Boris Yeltsin. And Do Muoi, Vietnam's Communist Party chief, asking for more foreign investment and affirming that it would be just fine if the path to pure communism first made the Vietnamese...
...another American scourge: slavery, which he considers the moral equivalent of abortion. "Slavery is not an academic point to anyone like me," he says. "And I will defend the unborn just as I would have fought against slavery." It was precisely this apocalyptic message, which he articulated in a bravura eight-minute speech at a New Hampshire candidates' cattle show last February, that sparked his support among conservative Christians, as like-minded radio hosts around the country replayed his speech...
...been five years since Margaret Thatcher resigned as Britain's Prime Minister. In her heyday she strode the international headlines with such bravura that she seemed inevitable, a natural force. The world stage seemed just the right size for her, as she chaffed her conservative soul mate Ronald Reagan or flattered the "new man," Mikhail Gorbachev...
...abstract painting coming out of the School of Paris in the late '40s and '50s, except for Serge Poliakoff (sometimes) and the still somewhat underrated Nicolas de Sta?l, was either self-consciously pious (religious stained glass was a favored metaphor) or mock convulsive. A hideous array of bravura squiggles by Georges Mathieu, whom French critics, for a while, regarded as Europe's answer to Pollock, reminds you how shallow this rhetoric could...