Word: bril
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Murray Kempton is sometimes bril liant in his perceptions of the angry prides and prejudices and the different worlds that met in Justice John Murtagh's New York City courtroom. But The Briar Patch is weirdly overwritten. Kempton's high prose style often so veneers the drama that even the simple facts of the case become difficult to follow. The language sometimes seems a travesty of James or Gibbon undertaking to describe Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Kempton simultaneously affects engagement and disdainful detachment, and the result occasionally leaves him drifting over the events in a kind of rhetorical...
After his candidate had nailed down the nomination, Nixon Confidant John Mitchell was asked if he had enjoyed campaigning. "No, I have not," he snapped. But now Mitchell, 55, a bril liant bond lawyer who earns $200,000 a year and who became involved in Nixon's campaign when their firms merged in 1967, has taken on the difficult job of putting into practice the campaign or atory about law and order, much of which he was responsible for formulating. The Attorney General-designate gained his legal reputation by arranging municipal bond financing for cities and states across...
...Perry, Robert Blake has the narcissistic good looks Capote described, with "the dark moist eyes" and bril-liantined black hair; he even appears to have "the stunted legs that seemed grotesquely inadequate to the grownup bulk they supported." Scott Wilson, as Dick, has the "long-jawed and narrow face tilted, the left side rather lower than the right," and the "American-style, good-kid" manner that can bounce a check or a baseball with equal ease. It is their performances that lift the film from documentary competence to near brilliance. In the end, the actors have become the criminals, understandable...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Glenn Gould, pianist; the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia, mono and stereo). Beethoven's symmetrically balanced dialogue between piano and orchestra emerges in a muscular, energetic and relentlessly logical reading. Pianist Gould and Conductor Bernstein work their bril liant moves like a pair of lifelong chess opponents who anticipate each other by the shift of a pawn...
...Peace. An uneven but bril liantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some outstandingly good battle pieces; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept...