Word: brio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last Christmas, eToys proved you could sell Barbies and Brio trains on the Web, doing $20 million in sales and capturing more than 50% of the online toy biz. So this year off-line players had no choice but to go cyber and--surprise, surprise--they've been up to the task. Toys "R" Us, the bumbling, old-economy slow mover, has in the past two quarters come on like light sabers in the toy space, setting up a subsidiary, Toysrus.com and prepping that company to go public sometime next year...
...individual volumes, starting next year. The bulk of The Rubinstein Collection is given over to later performances that too often are cautious, occasionally even bland. But the first 11 discs, recorded in the '20s and '30s and exquisitely remastered by Ward Marston, sizzle with the devil-may-care brio that made Rubinstein the best-loved pianist of his generation...
...plays her as God-addled--all heat, energy and passion, a teenager who doesn't begin to think calmly until it's too late. This makes for a lively, nutty film, one full of clumsy, clanging battles filmed by the gifted, eccentric Besson (La Femme Nikita) with bloody brio. Besson is less confident of his genius with the court intrigues that bring Joan down, but that's where all the good actors--John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway--are. Dustin Hoffman makes a well-played but weird sort of grand inquisitor...
Politics, as the saying goes, is Hollywood for ugly people, and that was one reason Jack Kennedy gleamed so in his chosen field. Youth, wealth and that Kennedy brio helped, no doubt, but in this nation, which always loved its movie stars more than its leaders, dashing good looks, a beautiful wife and an untimely death make a sure ticket to immortality. John Kennedy Jr. was not in politics (though remarkably, everyone now seems to remember him as headed that way). Just as well, perhaps ? we don?t much like our politicians these days, and private-sector John-John...
...life, when he was in Italy, the Mecca of the aspiring French painter, his pencil drawings caught the upper crust of foreigners there--the milords Anglais and their families on the Grand Tour, the French officials who ran Napoleon's kingdom in Italy, his fellow expatriate artists--with stylish brio and steely exactness. It is fascinating to see him shifting through different levels of notation--for example, between the subtle, continuous modeling of the face of Mrs. Charles Badham (1816) and the brisker, more linear treatment of her shawl and clothes, and the subtle ghost traces of Roman architecture behind...