Word: brio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would surely not surprise Frank Cross, the sleaze-hearted TV executive played with conniving brio by Bill Murray in Scrooged. Frank has even planned a Christmas Eve broadcast of A Christmas Carol, with an all-star cast (Buddy Hackett as Ebenezer, Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim). He is bursting with creative ingenuity: he wants tiny reindeer antlers stapled on the forehead of a Christmas mouse. But Frank is about to get scrooged by the ghost of his old boss (John Forsythe), and three Christmas spirits want to teach him a lesson in generosity. He will hallucinate an eyeball...
...President's aides privately agreed. A few of them came close to panic during the debate, fearful that Bush's skittish performance would create a reaction that "could roll out of control," as one adviser put it. Their sudden anxiety turned out to be as baseless as Dukakis' new brio. By week's end a TIME poll flashed a different verdict: the public credits Dukakis as a debater but leans to Bush for President...
...Frecce Tricolori have a reputation for recklessness. Nutarelli, the oldest on the team, was a daredevil known for a breathtaking stunt called the bell ringer, in which he killed his engine in midair, plummeted downward and restarted it in time to pull up before crashing. "The Italians fly with brio, with panache and with skill," said Jacques Bottelin, leader of France's Patrouille Martini civilian flying team. "But they push too far." The Italian team has performed in the U.S., most recently two years ago at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Significantly, the Italians were prevented by FAA safety...
...ROSSINI TENOR (Arabesque). Up bel canto hill and down rodomontade dale, con brio, with the rising young opera star Rockwell Blake...
...trying to make a play for my daughter?" asks Meredith of one William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth (Theater Director Peter Sellars). Well, yes -- and the play he wants to make for her is King Lear. The film, though, could be called The Comedy of Eras. With his usual dour brio, Godard mixes allusions from five centuries of drama, painting, film. He presides onscreen too, speaking like a deranged Hitchcock, his hair a Rastafarian tangle of phone cords, stereo jacks and dog tags. The whole sport makes for Godard's most infuriating, entertaining pastiche in two decades. It's nice...