Word: feated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic feat: two men against the unforgiving granite face of a mountain. From a beginning without fanfare, through a frustrating, storm-slowed ascent to a triumphant end, the assault on the Wall of the Early Morning Light -the sheerest approach to the summit of Yosemite's El Capitan Peak-was an atavism. For those who watched, it was like all high adventure, an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary life where seldom are there clean, finite beginnings, middles and ends to anything, and unalloyed success is rarer still...
...inspired an exciting group of young successors-Albert Finney, Nicol Williamson, Ian McClellan, Tom Courtenay -actors less attuned to the niceties of craft, but ablaze with Elizabethan intensity. In Home, the U.S. debut of an extremely evocative new British playwright, David Storey, there is an opportunity to view a feat of artistry by Richardson and Gielgud that becomes legendary before one's eyes...
...Cookies. Never gazing hammily at the ceiling as so many romantic keyboard idols do, Ohlsson made it clear that he prefers Chopin the dramatist, without entirely sacrificing Chopin the nocturnal perfumer. Rightly so. In the E Minor Concerto, Chopin accomplished the considerable feat of turning the roulades, trills and other frills of the 19th century salon style into the stuff of major symphonic theater...
...giddiness, of giggliness, of madness, of contraction, of elevation, of "growing pains," of terror, of playfulness, of ecstasy. Simply to turn this catalogue of seeming abstractions into something palpable and concrete and real is a measure of the extraordinary achievement of the play. The players who perform the feat are Gerry Bamman, Tom Costello, Saskia Noordhoek Hegt, Jerry Mayer, Angela Pietropinto and Larry Pine. To single out one would be to slight...
...really say whether Bok has been successful at the Law School. You can say he's endured, which is no small feat...