Word: gracefully
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...Riff, Tony's best friend and the leader of the Jets. Dusty Thomson is charming. In "Cool," he handles the tricky melody and the non-sense syllables with real grace redeeming what is perhaps the musical's closest approach to absurdity. Tracy Pizzo swaggers nicely as Anybody's, the tomboy who just wants to be one of the boys...
Blending the fast-paced athleticism of modern funk, the vibrant energy of contemporary jazz and the classical grace of lyrical ballet, the Crimson Dance Team soared to first place yesterday in the New England Regional Dance Competition, held at Boston College High School...
...angry students may not want to allot her that grace period...
When she's not plotting with Gingrich and his congressional allies, Huffington socializes with the city's young conservatives, who admire her social grace and hang on every word of her brash conservatism. At a dinner honoring another conservative deity, Margaret Thatcher, she was escorted by David Brock, the writer for the American Spectator who reported the Arkansas state troopers' allegations about President Clinton's infidelities. She played host to a book party for author and former Bush aide Jim Pinkerton, a young conservative Washington author. Another new friend is attorney Laura Ingraham, former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas...
...question of whether that goodness can survive, whether it can extend its grace to the tormented Zimans and at the same time triumph over the fateful malignity of the relentless cop, remains the central question, for Lelouch as for Hugo. But this is not, finally, a movie that encourages such abstract considerations. It is all shameless pace and jostle, a compendium of evil (war, suicide, poverty, injustice, exploitation) that yet asks us to believe that common decency (and a strong back) can eventually triumph over it. Maybe so, maybe not. But how pretty it is to believe...