Word: brio
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...prodigiously gifted as Barnes, a man whose felicitous turn of phrase, diverse themes and omnivorous curiosity occasion universal admiration in circles literary and otherwise. There are few contemporary writers who have attempted to tackle such disparate topics and with such success as Barnes has. With alarming competence and brio, he ranges from sexual jealousy to disquisitions on art, from poignant, elegant meditations on love to the nightmare that is suburban life...
...something akin to T.R.'s dream. Without spoiling the "surprises" in a lumpishly predictable plot, one can reveal that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), the characters lack inner life. As the set suggests, they are pawns on a chessboard -- with no grand master in sight...
West's appointment provided him with the opportunity to make his unique vision a reality and provided Princeton with the brio and brilliance of a man who has been characterized as the preeminent African-American intellectual of this generation...
...Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More has a lifetime's impacted melancholy and sense of fragile hope. Similarly, Neil Young's From Hank to Hendrix, about a man who measures all the seminal events of his personal history against a pop panorama, has both a youthful brio and a hard-won autumnal perspective...
...short-haired, fast-talking comedian who influenced a generation of stand-ups with his deft skewering of pop culture and the media. Others (like Carlin's mentor, Lenny Bruce) had poked fun at these subjects, but none with as sharp an eye or as much performing brio. Carlin's unctuous radio deejays, TV newscasters and commercial pitchmen were not simple parodies; he used them to satirize a whole society that had its priorities out of whack. "The sun did not come up this morning, huge cracks have appeared in the earth's surface, and big rocks are falling...