Word: fleetingness
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At 52, Marceau must have surpassed all his childhood ambitions. His show is a pure delight, so beautiful it hurts, hypnotizing entire audiences sketch after sketch, show after show. Mobilizing every muscle in that gracefully compact body--down to the muscle that bends a thumb backwards at the joint to...
For all the enormous achievements of science in posting the universe that man inhabits, odd things keep slipping past the sentries. The tap on the shoulder may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of...
It is mildly ironic that such unpretentious objects, conceived and made without much more than a fleeting reference to the canons of 18th and 19th century mainstream art, should now have lost their practical use and migrated to the museums. History cautions us not to think of pre-industrial America...
Zero Mostel re-creates his Broadway role of John, Stanley's friend and upstairs neighbor. Writing about the 1961 production, Critic Robert Brustein observed that "Mostel has a great dancer's control of movement, a great actor's control of voice, a great mime's control...
In the eyes of many Republican leaders, Wilson is well qualified. In 20 years in the state assembly and 15 as Lieutenant Governor, he acquired a knowledge of the state bureaucracy and local party organizations that few other New York pols can match. "Rockefeller had a fleeting idea of who...