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...others are doing any better. Cranston jokes that "I had a full head of hair until Reagan became President," but even his TV ads bring out a flaw that is not the California Senator's fault: in an age of imagery, his bony build and glistening skull are unpresidential. With his brains and looks, Gary Hart should be a winning candidate. But his natural reserve makes him seem cold, even condescending. Ernest Rollings looks like a President, yet his quick tongue outpaces even his nimble wit; he rambles, improvises and seems to startle himself, as well as his audiences...
...poet can more easily celebrate a avoid than a fullness, more easily erect intricate monuments to Nothing than admit the existence of Something, Libby does not ask if the mystical absorption in death is not perhaps a retreat. This is the only serious flaw in a critical argument that fully acknowledges an off-ignored characteristic of poetry. The poem is only half--the reader is the rest...
Furthermore, whenever the dancers did perform a series of pirouettes or a long series of jumps, the movements looked more like acrobatic achievements than artistic expressions. The biggest flaw in this ballet was that the dancers did not dance to their fullest capacities. They did not seem to put any emotional intensity into their mechanical performances. Ludwig Minkus music also tended to move slowly, which only detracted from the piece...
...flaw in passione is that, if it does try to reach out form beneath the superficial and cliched to point out a subtle statement, the message is buried in overkill. While the characters lives seem realistic, the happy ending strains the limits of credibility and the illusion quickly falls apart. The playwright's challenge is to make an audience chuckle and choke up in the same evening, but Passione is not an appropriate vehicle for anything except laughter and some pointed satire...
...wonder to achieve just such impossibilities. He gets all but universal praise from journalists and from officials he has interviewed, for both skill and affability. "In all the years I've known Ted," says ABC Morning News Anchor Steve Bell, "I've yet to detect the flaw...