Word: gracefully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lewis, Pacino is a manic-depressive novelist-cum-doorman, living on the extreme margins of the arts world in Manhattan and dreaming that the next confessional, autobiographical manuscript will justify his colossal self-importance. The only thing the roles have in common is that both show off his grace with language, whether Wilde's shimmering, overripe, pseudo-antique prose poetry or Lewis' quintessentially Manhattan cocktail of complaint and cranky insult comedy...
...also Batman, a trussed-up do-gooder who cannot reveal his identity. Selina Kyle, the single woman with a lousy love life, is also the vengeful kitten with a whip: "I am - Catwoman! Hear me roar!" Bruce and Selina are drawn to each other's worldly wise grace and the hint of hidden wounds. They are attracted by the fear of what they might find. And when they don their business suits, as Bat and Cat, the animal comes out. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. Hansel and Grendel. Fatal Attraction meets Beauty and the Beast...
...Yeltsin, the team manager, coping with ordinary affairs of state, is in marked contrast to the larger-than-life image of the Russian leader that the world came to know during last August's putsch. He displayed ruthless daring again last December, when he delivered the political coup de grace to Gorbachev and to the empire he ruled. But Yeltsin has been dogged by one persistent doubt: Could he transform himself from a defiant leader of the opposition, bent on destroying the old order, into a competent statesman capable of building...
...explain how he would attack it. Does he favor higher taxes? No . . . Well, yes . . . Well, maybe. So far, the most specific program Perot has been able to describe would balance the budget by (shades of Michael Dukakis!) taxing the "underground economy" and (shades of the Grace Commission!) eliminating waste and fraud in government. It seems likely, somehow, that if it were really that simple, someone else would already have done...
...four decimal places for precision in class rank. This is where the American Dream still works, where crime is something glimpsed on a newscast, where the next generation prompts hope and not despair. Neither neighbors nor teachers nor her perhaps more candid peers see the girl's fall from grace as typical. To her fellow townspeople, Amy Fisher's life offers no moral alert, no cautionary lessons. She is just a postcard from beyond the edge...