Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aspiring novelist some telling advice: "When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief, as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief." In its cool observational dispassion and fineness of construction, Uncle Vanya has all the grace of a gentle snowfall...
Titanic has much the same structure. Evoking the incredible fortitude of the musicians who kept playing until the ship sank, the hymn Autumn (which bears a striking resemblance to Amazing Grace) is repeated over and over while its aural environment gradually changes. Modular in construction, the work can be performed at varying lengths. "As you know, water is a highly efficient conductor of sound," explains Bryars. "Obviously, it was impossible for the band to keep playing under water, but theoretically the music has just kept on going, forever. That's the feeling I was after...
...Julie Grace...
...financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test the presidential waters, Lugar was best known for being passed over for the vice-presidential jobs taken by Gerald Ford, George Bush and most ignominiously in 1988 by his junior Indiana counterpart Dan Quayle. He survived that indignity with grace. Now he senses there is a hunger in the country for a grownup who excels at foreign policy, a quiet statesman who worries more about the next generation than the next election and who is the most experienced foreign-policy expert in the race. He could have a chance. Says Charles...
...delightful mix of thoughtfulness and winning verve," a "mensch," and a "doll" who may be the "one nice guy left in Hollywood" (Ms. Rose has presumably met all the other guys in Hollywood--hey, she's a Crimson editor). Did Mr. Hanks behave well? You bet! He "was all grace and charm" as he "performed admirably," "sidestepped any awkwardness with boyish aplomb," and "kept the evening in perfect perspective." We simple, star-struck Pudding folk can only dream of the day when we will be able to rival Ms. Rose's cool, seemingly effortless air of journalistic detachment...