Word: bravuraed
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...amply justified. Not quite 24 hours earlier, as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee prepared to answer questions about her own and her husband's taxes and finances, it was by no means certain that there would be any meaningful "rest of the campaign." But after Ferraro's bravura performance, the MONDALE-EAGLETON buttons that had sprouted on Republican lapels seemed an exercise in wishful thinking. Some Democrats came close to euphoria; more realistic ones gave thanks that their campaign was still able to roll...
...measures failed to earn the country much sympathy last week from Latin neighbors. The nation drew criticism from Colombian Finance Minister Edgar Gutiérrez Castro, whose government lent Argentina $50 million last March. Bankers and international officials attack Argentina's stance as an act of political bravura. Says a World Bank economist: "They are handling the debt the way they were handling the Falklands war. They see themselves as the center of the universe...
...despite these failings, the overall energy, creativity, and sheer entertainment makes Cats a bravura production well worth seeing. From the hauntingly beautiful melody of "Memory" to the energetic "Mr. Mistoffelees" to the final song, a glorifying paean to felines Cats is a celebration of cats--and maybe after all it isn't purely fantasy. Look at Tabby the next time he basks on the sunlit windowsill, unbothered by the mundane humanity around him, lost in a secret world of his own, end you may begin to have second thoughts...
...been laid, three of the main paintings (owned by Australia, Iran and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City) are missing. Nor do we get to see Police Gazette, 1954-55, or Gotham News, 1955-56, the impacted, jostling city paintings that initiated de Kooning's bravura landscapes of the late '50s. With these and other gaps, one gets a less than full picture of the artist at his best, up to his 60th year. By the time the show gets to Europe and other early works have dropped out, it will be patchier still...
...poor Flap shaped up ("One of the nicest qualities about you is that you always recognized your weaknesses; don't lose that quality when you need it most") or bullying the nurse into administering a delayed sedative, MacLaine achieves a kind of cracked greatness, climax to a brave, bravura performance. Winger has an uncanny instinct for inhabiting a role, for implying that she knows even more about the character than words permit...