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...more interesting than the plot, however, is the background Eberstadt provides for each character, the fleeting situations, and the host of minor characters with their quick and pointed dialogue. She has a flair for constructing detailed, exotic scenarios which somehow manage to seem plausible without losing any of their fantastical quality. Each character is more eccentric than the fast, but instead of seeking like stylized brats seeking to be unconventional, they appear completely natural in their pursuit of oddities. Instead of pretension one finds rich, imaginative episodes, bordering on fantasy...
...other usual starting forward, Cedric Maxwell, is a connoisseur of leisure. At the moment he is caring for a bad knee. During the off-season Maxwell finds it restful to steer his long car to a construction site and watch other men sweat. While he has an undeniable flair for grand occasions on the court, and was the play-off MVP of 1981, now and then in the ordinary going he throttles down for an evening as if idling at a building project. This mildly annoys most of the other players, but it galls Bird, whose farm-bred ethic makes...
Robbins lets his ballerinas down this time. He pinpointed Nichols' strong classicism and Calegari's dramatic flair early in their careers, but in Eight Lines, the two women have impersonal, difficult parts that seem to evaporate. The men are better served, Lavery with wonderfully weighted balances, Andersen with quicksilver darts and turns. This has been Andersen's best season since he arrived five years ago from the Royal Danish Ballet. He has moved through a wide range of repertory looking very much at home yet utterly distinctive: elegant, slightly exotic, confidently musical. As usual Robbins has chosen his ensemble well...
...wait. Have we not lost the knack of royalty? Does it not take years of grooming--a grooming America does not provide--to form a king, to develop the royal flair? True, but all the more reason to take advantage of President Reagan's acting experience. Admittedly, in the past, we have not manufactured royalty, but we have not manufactured illusion. Now, Hollywood can make its first contribution to American culture. A movie star is just the man to be America's first king...
...dream of a food writer come true. Almost until his death last week of a heart attack following a kidney infection, Beard, 81, remained a monumental and genial presence in New York City food markets and restaurants, where his passion for good eating invariably proved contagious. Displaying a grand flair for showmanship refined by early training for the stage, he created dramatic settings for his cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica and antique wineglass rinsers in his handsome Greenwich Village town house. The bold checks he favored for jackets and the inverness...