Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production on a hysterical note, that wonderful craziness begins to wither away early into the actual play. Nearly everyone dons period costumes after the prologue, which makes Kate's t-shirt and jeans and Petruchio's black vinyl pants look out of place rather than creative. The lighting, while fine for some moments, misses its mark most of the time, and hides from the audience some of the most gifted and expressive actors this school has to offer. The set is adequate, but nothing special...
...will be sold for a capital gain. That's the bone that was thrown to the wealthy--a lower capital-gains tax rate. It's a valuable bone, for sure. The catch is that you have to be invested in order to gnaw on it. The superwealthy will do fine buying and selling things. But many wage slaves just don't have the cash...
...rookie does fine. He leaves the plot propulsion to the Scorsese grads--Keitel as a mob-controlled cop covering up a killing, De Niro as a flinty internal-affairs detective on Keitel's trail, Liotta as a good-bad cop--while he watches, listens, recedes into the wallpaper. Mining his own insecurity to mirror Freddy's, Stallone dominates these scenes with his poignant passivity. The sweet sadness in his eyes reveals something rare in modern films: how much pain and insult a decent man with zero self-esteem can endure. Of course, he and we know he's the hero...
...will manage fine. Like Freddy, he can take the heat. Like Rocky, he's a fighter with heart. And like Rambo, he keeps coming back...
...fine, dreamlike first novel, The Light of Falling Stars (Riverhead; 308 pages; $23.95), J. Robert Lennon does start off with an air crash, not far from a Montana town he calls Marshall. But he declines his own generous offer of melodrama (and of irony too, for that matter) and proceeds to a far more interesting narration that amounts to a kind of anti-melodrama. The plane falls, townspeople grieve and attend funerals. But enemies are not reconciled, deep perceptions are not arrived at, lovers do not see each other more clearly and dearly. Paul and Anita, a shakily married couple...