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...hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan's Salzburg Festival. The material is her familiar mix of early English songs by Purcell and Handel, German lieder, French chansons, and spirituals, but she sings with such crystalline vocalism and beguiling elan that it becomes irresistible. Levine's elegant pianism is a model of the accompanist...
...ELINT (electronic intelligence gathering) and HUMINT (human intelligence gathering, meaning spies and informers), which had been given short shrift. Having been a World War II operative for the old Office of Strategic Services (the CIA's precursor), Casey has retained a fondness for covert activities, and his reputation and elan have made him a hero within the agency. Yet the high morale at the CIA is in danger of evaporating as Iranscam unravels. Says one friend: "Everything that Bill Casey has achieved could be destroyed by the Iran-contra connection...
...when he first encountered Emma nearly 30 years ago. Of subsequent rereadings, he writes, "I have always had the sensation that I was discovering secret facets, unpublished details." This feeling is especially keen when the novel is discussed along with Flaubert's intimate correspondence. Vargas Llosa does this with elan and insight not unexpected from one of the world's most accomplished novelists...
...their best, the Moiseyev dancers offer a kinetic excitement that ought to be the envy of dance companies everywhere. The bodies are lithe, handsome and superbly conditioned, without a saggy, stereotypical babushka in sight, and they move through Moiseyev's short, repetitive kaleidoscopic patterns with elan and assurance. The headstands, the five-foot leaps, the tumbles and twirls are unfailingly impressive, and the music, a wildly eclectic pastiche of Soviet folk songs, Strauss waltzes and Mussorgsky tone poems, rattles along briskly under the baton of Conductor Anatoli Gusj...
...theatrical vitality? In large part because Off Broadway is providing a satisfying mix of star turns, ensemble work, deft new writing and apt revivals. Operating in smaller spaces, under less daunting financial pressures, off-Broadway's mostly nonprofit companies have mounted half a dozen recent shows demonstrating artistry and elan...