Word: gracefully
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...kind of moral torpor. But when he smiles at Rachel like a cat with Tweety Pie feathers on his lips or croons nonsense to his firstborn, Nicholson reveals the charm that hides the folly. You can hate Mark for his cruelty or love him for his robust grace and fine, sharp humor. Same with this movie...
Sounds odd, doesn't it? But that is only because the movies have lately forgotten a fact that never used to escape them, which is that love can turn up in the strangest places. And is never more welcome, as a sign of human grace, than when the pressure of deadly events is at its height...
This is only the second year of the arts medal, but the awards already have a sense of importance about them. Ronald Reagan lauded the honorees very / quietly and eloquently "for crowning our nation's greatness with grace." It was an echo of sorts from a thought expressed 200 years ago. John Adams, Abigail's husband, wrote that he studied war so that his sons might study commerce and agriculture so that their children could study painting and poetry. That hope lives...
...1/2-in. of Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, hugged and kissed and toasted his friends that day and went off into the scorching Washington afternoon renewed and rededicated to finding, encouraging and honoring the unexpected, that grace that always rises out of a free people...
Enough carping. In an age that rewards strength over grace, let there be women as strong as Weaver's Ripley. May homeless children have no less ferocious an adoptive mother; may extraterrestrial predators meet no less resourceful an antagonist. Trust that a million moviegoers will find the glamour beneath the smudged sweat on Ripley's face, and the feral humor in her challenge to Big Mama Alien: "Get away from her, you bitch...