Word: gracefully
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...Figaro" is not demanding in the same way as a Verdi or Wagner opera; sheer volume and range are less important here than lyric grace and vocal agility. But in some of Mozart's more convoluted ensembles--"Figaro" boasts several scenes in which more than six people are singing simultaneously--that agility can be just as difficult as a louder and showier Verdi aria. Just the elaborate recitatives, which are crucial to advance the plot, require a daunting combination of comic skill and vocal dexterity. What's more, "Figaro" has at least five major singing roles, and a weak voice...
Newman has written extensively about the urban working poor, including Falling From Grace, a book exploring the cultural and familial consequences of corporate downsizing...
Clearly, The Juror isn't interested in placing its heroine in the kind of jeopardy--a matter of silences, shadows, and nasty surprises--that blows away disbelief. It wants her to find not only grace under pressure but also empowerment in a world where all the males she meets are either brutes or wimps. Well, all right, you say--a feminist thriller. It's been done (by, among others, Ted Tally, the screenwriter of The Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays...
...Hollywood with a fussy, je-suis-l'artiste beard and an RKO contract giving him total control over his films. To an industry in robust middle age, Welles was a pampered brat. They called him Little Orson Annie, the Christ Child. One local wit said, "There, but for the grace of God, goes...
Equally satisfying is the way the film is put together. The editing is first rate and the shifts from archival footage to interviews only occasionally lack grace. Traditional Chinese folk and Party songs help to complete the feeling of what it must have been like to be in China at the height of the Communists popularity...