Word: brio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film's triumph is to communicate this creepy excitement with urgency and great cinematic brio, while neither condescending to the girls nor apologizing for their sin. The film's serendipitous stroke was to find Winslet and, especially, Lynskey, a first-time actress. They are perfect, fearless in embodying teenage hysteria. They declaim their lines with an intensity that approaches ecstasy, as if reading aloud from Wuthering Heights. The giggles that punctuate the girls' early friendship are not beneath Winslet and Lynskey. The screams that end the film are not beyond them...
...Jagger's yowls and Richards' riffs are more than a tad familiar, the duo launch into their trademark grooves with such brio that the results are still scintillating. By showcasing what the Stones have always done best, Voodoo Lounge, while not breaking any new ground, secures their status as rock 'n' roll's reigning survivors...
...Navratilova's contribution to the women's game goes beyond the nearly 170 singles titles and $20 million in prize money she has won in her career. She has left her mark as indelibly as Billie Jean King, who introduced emotion and brio to the game, and Chris Evert, whose legacy includes killer concentration and the two-fisted backhand. Navratilova's gifts may be even more significant. She elevated serve and volley tactics to a higher level on the women's tour and made it fashionable for women to display muscle tone. Even traditionalist Evert began to pump iron after...
...Altman's impatience with conventional narrative animates his film, so does his patience with and trust of actors. He's always been a man who encourages his performers to riff on a script's themes, and they respond with astonishing brio. "This movie was like a symphony, with Bob serving as the conductor," says one of his featured players, Matthew Modine. "It created a tremendous amount of pressure because you have to understand where you're at, when you come in, and what your role is. It's like a musician standing in front of these two big timpani drums...
Fully a decade after Brio was nominated as an official cleanup site, it stands as the pre-eminent example of what has gone wrong with the extensive government cleanup program known as Superfund. Though nearly $1 billion has vanished in litigation, damages and other costs, virtually nothing has been done to the Brio mess in the way of actual cleanup. The pattern has been regularly repeated nationwide: instead of redressing the worst toxic-dumping problems, the program has become a vast legal nightmare, one that has turned interested parties against one another in a frenzy of litigation...