Word: graces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal settings are those favorite corners of Greeneland, grimy London and a sunnier Third World capital, both pregnant with menace. The story lurches, sometimes comically, toward a classic Greene ending, which combines plausible irony with amazing grace. And the Captain is a typical Greene figure: a man of several names and many shadowy occupations and absences. His enemies are, of course, corrupt officialdom and bourgeois smugness. His story is told by Victor, the boy he says he won at backgammon, or maybe chess -- the tale shifts with the passing years. Along with the wraithlike woman who is the Captain...
...14th century France, when the Black Plague was turning Europe into a mass graveyard, Noses tells the story of one Father Flote, a priest with revolutionary ideas about the role of religion in people's lives. Flote, played with amazing grace by Michael Starr, rebels against the penitents and clergy who argue that the plague is God's punishment for humanity's sins. The only way to save the world, say the penitents, is through pain--self-inflicted or otherwise...
...ought to combine with Hershiser's record 59 zeroes to make quite a noise. In these anabolic times, a Washington reporter with only the evidence of his eyes has been able to incite chants of "ster-oids, ster- oids" in the bleacher sections around Canseco. But Jose has the grace to grin and make a muscle. "The fans don't mean any harm," he shucks...
BIZET: SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR; "L'ARLESIENNE" SUITE (Erato). Grace, style, panache and a certain je ne sais quoi: Bizet had it all. Just what the doctor ordered when you're sick of the three German...
...train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush T shirts. On the other side of the factory, for the thousandth time that day, the sisters introduce Bush by singing Coal Miner's Daughter, Amazing Grace, The Man from Galilee, and I Saw the Light. The crowds all day, surprised to find someone really famous among them, give the singers squeals of delight and that suddenly sharp liveliness of the eyes, the predatory gladness, that announces recognition of a celebrity. Loretta Lynn...