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...whatever fact they can, Amidon himself refuses to lose control. His reliance on formula comes across more as reluctance to hazard outside of the safe bounds of cliché than lack of talent. In “Security,” Amidon demonstrates that he has a flair for plot and an eye for intrigue. If only he would just relax and let go.—Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwartz@fas.harvard.edu...
...Portfolio was supposed to bring the flair of Condé Nast (whose premier titles include Vogue, Vanity Fair and Glamour) to the drab, buttoned-up world of business journalism. So big-name writers and editors were lured away from prominent publications, including editor in chief Joanne Lipman, who came over from the Wall Street Journal. She got the usual Condé Nast perks: a car and driver, an office decorated in the style of her choice, business- or first-class plane tickets everywhere. (See the best magazine covers of the past year...
...touch. Friere, whose command of the keyboard rivaled that of his longtime duo partner and legendary pianist Martha Argerich at the peak of his career, delivered a restrained performance that failed to communicate the rustic, fiercely nationalistic character of Grieg’s music. Friere’s former flair for pairing reckless abandon with nuanced maturity was completely absent from this performance. The attack of the opening octave cascade was overly cautious, and Sung’s uninvolved conducting generated orchestral accompaniment that further quenched any musical excitement. Friere’s rough phrasing of the second movement?...
...puffs like an out-of-shape runner trying to turn a marathon into a sprint. It's got most of the original's text but not its texture. The TV show's director, David Yates, sometimes erred on the side of camerabatics, but he lent the enterprise pace and flair, and assured that each of the story's 20 or so major characters had a life of his or her own. (From State of Play Yates graduated to the Harry Potter franchise; he will have directed four of the final eight Potters.) The film's director, Kevin Macdonald...
...memoir revealing some uncomfortable family secrets. Kazan stuffs her play with characters and incidents; old feuds and private griefs; sibling rivalries and the inevitable outsider - a prodigal adopted son, now a hot TV producer, who arrives at the party uninvited. Kazan manages all this with some flair, but the gears show too much; it's one of those plays where characters keep stumbling into the end of conversations they're not supposed to hear, or witnessing smooches they're not supposed to see. The clan, moreover, seems too derivative - not of real life, but of some hothouse literary fantasy world...