Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grace and dignity with which he handled the week reminded all one last time what he brought to the game. The heartfelt sadness he inspired reminded all why the game was so special...
...with the mystical Sufi sect. Unfortunately, the support checks from the girls' faraway father arrive only erratically. Julia takes up with a sometime acrobat named Bilal (Said Taghmaoui), whose charm is matched by his fecklessness. They are all blown this way and that by minor mishaps, passing acts of grace, and the suspense of the movie derives from our wondering whether Julia will come to her senses before irretrievable disaster overtakes these innocent adventurers...
...heroine of a stage musical--and no one cares! To be sure, the unheralded off-Broadway show Queen of Hearts is too scrappy and simplistic to be very satisfying, even to connoisseurs of kitsch. Its Diana is an unnuanced saint whose key moment of insight comes when Princess Grace advises her, "Trust in yourself. Be who you are." Yet the musical boasts an appealing Diana in Paula Leggett Chase, who has the hairstyle and the gangly grace and (in songs like The Walls Are Closing In) makes a decent case for her emotional strength. In a more polished show...
...world first learned of the remarkable Delany sisters in a 1991 New York Times article. Self-described "colored maiden ladies," Sadie, then 103, and Bessie, 101, had overcome daunting obstacles to become successful professionals and lead lives of inspiring grace. Their story was turned into a best-selling book and a Broadway hit show. Now Emily Mann has spun her little two-character play into a glorious panoramic TV movie, joyous and touching. Diahann Carroll plays sweet, pragmatic Sadie with lovely simplicity. In the showier role of the flinty Bessie, Ruby Dee gives as rich and true a performance...
There is a famous picture of Ernest Hemingway taken in the last decade of his life. In the picture, he sits over a table, writing: he leans towards his thick left arm and writes with the other. He is both solid and graceful, not an airy grace but the true grace of a man who seems in absolute control and comfort, his collar opened low on his famous chest. His head inclines towards the left and downward, the eyes lowered to the page and obscured to the viewer. The white, trimmed beard is dignified, the coming together of his lips...