Word: brio
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...because Cyrano wears his soul with panache, a plume of the lyric spirit. He has the brio of a Don Juan, yet he dares not woo the beautiful and shallow Roxane for fear that his monstrous nose will render him ridiculously ugly in her eyes. And so he puts his words of eloquence, passion and longing at the service of the handsome and inarticulate dolt Christian, whom Roxane fancies. Cyrano also possesses some of the romantic chivalry of Don Quixote. He tilts at the crass, compromising windbags of this world. He has an in nate gallantry that makes his last...
...granted. This, fortunately, is not the case with the City Center Jeffrey Ballet. There the accent is definitely on music. Not only does the company dance to Varese, Mayuzumi, blues, rock, jazz or electronic music, but it also picks up on even newer fashions with dizzying alacrity and brio. Indeed, there are times when the youthful Jeffrey troupe (average age: 20) suggests a band of teen-agers dancing in front of a pop-classical jukebox. That makes Jeffrey performances fun to watch-and hear. Alas, it frequently makes them somewhat flimsy and superficial...
Another book about Igor Stravinsky? No, not just another book. Lillian Libman's A nd Music at the Close: Stravinsky's Last Years, published this week (Norton; $9.95), has already, sight unseen, caused the music world's most con brio feud of the decade. Engaging in a bit of pre-publication drumbeating last spring, Libman disclosed that her book would challenge the familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-a portrait produced by his literary collaborations with his co-conductor, aide and surrogate son Robert Craft (TIME, June...
...generally agreed that the post-Chappaquiddick Edward Kennedy is an even more effective and increasingly powerful Senate liberal. He is also conceded to be the best natural politician of the whole remarkable clan-less remote than Jack, far less abrasive than Bobby, and with an unfettered, spontaneous brio all his own. Hersh quotes a family friend as saying that Jack "went weak with pleasure" watching his young brother press flesh with the public...
...Finch's Macbeth seems to be consumed by tuberculosis. In the climactic battle with Duncan, Finch looks as if he was having some trouble hefting his broadsword. But the supporting cast (Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride) is fiery, and Polanski manages most of the violent confrontations with brio...