Word: gracefully
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...think when I try to take notes, I lose a lot of the lecture," says Grace...
...Southern, baby-boom Governor match would look like. "This is a President who reads a book one night and tries everything in it the next day, who feels it's necessary to work out his midlife crisis in public," he said. The crowd laughed; then came the coup de grace. "How can we hope to teach our children right from wrong," he asked, "with Bill Clinton in the White House...
...made his name with such incendiary devices as Bullet in the Head and Hard-Boiled--furious meditations on manhood as a criminal state of grace. Broken Arrow is jokier, less resonant than those dark epics, but it's still a swell night at the movies. The audience gets as pulverizing a workout as the stars do. Or rather, the stars' stunt doubles, who deserve Oscars for best supporting masochism...
...death-taunting stunts. His movies, like The Armour of God and the Police Story series (available in some U.S. video stores), are comedy fantasies, but they are also documentaries of the pain a great star will endure to please his audience. They have something else: a bracing athletic grace. The fights are as exuberant and abstract as the dances in a Busby Berkeley musical. And Chan is a superb physical artist, whether leaping off cliffs or hanging from a bus by an umbrella handle. As novelist Donald E. Westlake put it, "Jackie Chan is Fred Astaire, and the world...
Apart from this fault, the rest of the musical moves with as much grace and style as can be expected from a small-stage production. With music composed by the South African troupe Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the same group which recorded the album Graceland with Paul Simon, the show alternates between spoken dialogue and a cappella song...