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Kapuscinski is a writer who can make a point. A best-selling author in Poland, he is widely known in the rest of Europe and in America for The Soccer War, a collection of daredevil reportage from the Third World. Imperium too is a bravura performance, a kind of New Journalism about the Old World. As a youth in Soviet-dominated Pinsk, Poland, which is now in Belarus, Kapuscinski saw friends and teachers disappear -- part of Stalin's mass deportation and resettlement program that aimed to replace diverse nationalities with homo sovietus. This misfortune, as a dour professor in Baku...
...hesitant to brand a final judgment on Shaham's playing, given that it has yet to be tested seriously outside of his specialty of technical bravura. But, his newly minted exclusive partnership with Deutsche- Grammophon has certainly had an auspicious start...
...gossamer and draped it skillfully on the body. Byron Lars, who is just 29, put on the most dazzling show of all three cities, full of swagger and unabashed theatrics, with the most sophisticated music -- ranging from bongo drums to Delibes -- since the early days of Lacroix. Such a bravura presentation could have overwhelmed the clothes, but fortunately they were just as confident -- well cut and witty...
This, however, was a mistake that eluded even many Washington veterans; for those watching on home screens, the President put on a bravura show of candor and reasonableness. He seemed entirely affable, showing not a trace of the anger that Whitewater accusations have provoked in him at other times. Again and again he stressed eagerness to cooperate with Fiske's investigation or any other; he said specifically that "I expect that the special counsel will want to question me and will want to question the First Lady" and added that "I will cooperate with him in whatever way he decides...
...Lewis' was a melodramatic Dane -- an agitated youth who raced across his world of a stage as if late for a date with doom. It was a reckless, bravura turn that could sap any star's strength. In the middle of a performance toward the end of the run, Day-Lewis left the stage and did not return. The theater pages were full of rumors that he had seen his father as the ghost and was driven daft. "I have no bad feelings about my father, my father's ghost, the ghost of Hamlet, Hamlet, Shakespeare, Richard Eyre...