Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following season his team fell from grace and finished below .500, but Dupuis remained one of the Ivy's elite goalies, earning a spot on the All-Ivy second team...
...exaggerating, but he's probably right. The best houses and designs of the era stripped away all that was extraneous, somehow enhancing the natural grace of the form that was left. The houses are shelters instead of enclosures; residents dwell in them while dwelling simultaneously in the outside environment. There are fewer elements in the open plan of the houses, but each has purpose. And instead of adding bulk, the steel enables rooms, staircases and mezzanines to float, and spaces to take on unique forms...
What the elect don't know, but Allen insists on, is that the state of grace they enjoy is not secular sainthood. That is to say, it is generally unearned by good works and suffering. It is, at best, a capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity...
...over the throne is stated. In short, this darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex movie ought to have many constituencies, even in the age of Ally McBeal. The largest of them may turn out to be moviegoers hungry for rich, old-fashioned historical spectacle and eager to revel in the subtle grace with which Cate Blanchett takes the title character from wariness to regality...
Conrad John Schuck and Kay Story make a delightful pair as Daddy Warbucks and Grace, Warbuck's secretary, in the second half of the first act. Shuck's deep voice and stiff manner are a perfect compliment to Story's soft femininity, and although the set design for the Warbucks mansion is a bit much--The Nike of Samothrace looms in one corner, while Picassos, Mattises, Rembrants and the Mona Lisa also make appearances--it does produce a few chuckles from older members of the audience. Rooster Hannigan, played by Laurent Giroux, and his accomplice Lily St. Regent ("like...