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...check clerk at an ice rink." She is onstage, a post-punk dream clad in black satin, electric-pink socks the only splash of color. "Which, in fact, he turned out to be." Her hair is short, spiky, capping a high-cheekboned, all-American visage. An organ chord swells in the background. "And I said, 'Oh boy. Right again. Let x equal x.' " Behind her, a small rock band plays softly. "It's a sky-blue sky," she says. "Satellites are out tonight. Let x equal...
...musical ethos, demanding though it is, is still far from that of old-fashioned tyrants like his mentor, George Szell, or Fritz Reiner. "Perfectionist is one of the stupidest words in the English language," says Levine. "Take any performance. I promise you that there will be a pizzicato chord that's not together; somewhere or other a horn will crack. If there are a number of magical and successful moments that really capture what they should, then a technical imperfection here or there will pass. The question is whether you are counting successes or counting mistakes...
That may be too lofty a plane on which to place Foxfire. If so, it is an error on the side of the angels. What is being struck on the stage of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater is the rarely heard chord of all-embracing humanity. This play quivers with laughter and stabs the heart. It speaks for things too long mute: love of the land (in this case, Southern Appalachia), the inviolability of the family, the rigorous ethic of hard work and the rebuke and solace of an omnipresent God. To think of that as a didactic...
...chase that occupies the bulk of the film. In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard, in the process giving an artful demonstration of guerrilla warfare. The movie occasionally pauses to strum a familiar ironic chord: that the skills that make a man a hero in war can turn him into a criminal in peacetime. But First Blood is always eager to be up and about, attending to its real business, which is the celebration of primitive masculine competence in a succession of well-made action...
...These experiences, when they befall those close to us, prove so deeply personal that the idea of more than 100 college deans coming from all parts to discuss stress and substance abuse and suicide in a formal conference on "Stress-Related Problems Among College Students" strikes a distasteful chord...