Word: gracing
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...also cherish the film for the grace it summons in approaching its subject: thinking about feelings. People do this all the time - it cues our sweetest and most melancholy moods - but films don't do it nearly enough. Gabrielle, like Closer and oh, Broadcast News, shows the art and pleasure in talking out one's passions, grudges and inadequacies...
...album’s saving grace is its second half, the soundtrack to a documentary about the Tuskegee Airmen titled “The Red-Tailed Angels.” Byron finally comes home to the major scale, composing a piece that beautifully expresses the tension between duty and rebellion that the Airmen embodied...
Shearer's Royal Ballet colleague Margot Fonteyn was by 1948 the world's top ballet dancer. Her grace, sense of drama and ability to remain en pointe for seemingly minutes on end won her wide acclaim (and the cover of TIME). Later, when she was in her 40s, she found new life and a new lover with young Rudolf Nureyev. But her story was gaudier than her renown: the stuff of affairs, abortions, gunrunning for her Panamanian husband, an old age stripped of wealth, burial in a pauper's grave. Tony Palmer's thrilling 2005 documentary brims with pertinent clips...
...still be wonderful. But Champagne's version is as good as the original, maybe better. Three young women swing, on coat-hanger-shaped trapezes, above a man who yearns for all of them but can possess none. The women's description of arcs and helixes in the air, the grace and complexity of their movements, cast a spell over the audience. It's a mesmerizing form of sorcery in motion...
...lead him (and us) into what amounts to a near-universal fantasy - push-button control over wayward life. Imagine it as a kind of updated version of the ghosts who enabled Scrooge to envision Christmases past, present and future and ride his time warp into to a state of grace. It also offers an efficient way for Michael to experience a morally instructive alternative reality...