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Likewise, Cardillo sings masterfully, convincingly portraying an ailing gentleman while retaining a forceful voice. Collins, though occasionally overshadowed by these formidable vocalists, still possesses a laudable voice. Not only are these two talented singers, but they interact well; their exchanges provide this musical's most enjoyable moments...
...chicken sandwiches. "P.J.'s image of himself is probably quite different from the public's perception of him," says friend Denis Boyles. "He might want to appear a bad boy, but I think the way he'd like to appear, sometime in his life, is as a Victorian gentleman." Readers should hope that never happens...
...achieve, he said, een loechte maniere, "an airy style." In the process, writes Jeffrey M. Muller in the catalog, he "intentionally formed a style representative of grace." Grace meant facility, apparent ease, but in no superficial way: a style analogous to the poise and manners of the true gentleman, a conception of human character that was forming at the Stuart court even as he worked there and was thought to radiate from the person of the King. Let the French have their Roi Soleil, a periwigged divinity; Van Dyck would give the court an iconography of kingship that...
...bitter setbacks (the city council rejected a group of her nominees for assistant chiefs -- two white males and a Hispanic woman). Alfred Calloway, a black councilman who opposed Watson's choices, stresses that little of the opposition was directed at her personally. "There's still an old Southern gentleman sort of thing here," he says. "They might be giving her more trouble if she weren't pregnant...
...they were Noel Coward lovers gone to hell in a Lamborghini. Close carries herself with the cool, pathetic majesty of the prematurely doomed. She limps swankily, dines on sundaes and cigarettes, treats Claus as if "a male's place is in the deck chair." Irons wears a kept gentleman's tight smile and gracefully calibrates every gesture, his hand describing Palmer method circles in the air as he speaks in a voice mellowed in good schools and fine port. Perhaps there is only a pretense of loving, but pretense is everything. As they argue in bed one night, Claus covers...