Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bruce's delusions of grandeur aside, we at Dartboard must say we enjoyed watching Bruce and Harvard's own wannabe Corrupt Politician Randall A. Fine '96 scramble and dissemble in an attempt to keep the Salient from seeing the light of day. Perhaps they should try that for next issue as well. Steven A. Engel...
...style majesty and grandeur are now elements of many Vegas shows. Some, especially Cirque du Soleil's $33 million Mystere at Treasure Island, have the otherworldly vision to transcend this outsize format. And some, like EFX--a $67 million investment, including $27 million to equip its theater with 3-D movie projection, a "fog wall" of steam and liquid nitrogen and hot-wired rumble seats--are content to give visitors a hell of a high-tech ride...
...melodic gift, reminiscent of Schubert and Schumann. Paradoxically, this heroic visionary was most at home in such small-scale works; his more ambitious pieces for two pianos (written in 1871 and '73) owe much in vocabulary and gesture to Liszt and Wagner. But the seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin fantasy anticipates Debussy. And the songs--which were written mostly between 1861 and 1864 (though the moving Prayer to Life dates from 1882) and set to poems by Nietzsche himself, Ruckert, Pushkin and others--are genuinely affecting...
Ogletree said if he were a juror, "I could conclude--painfully so--that the government has not proved him to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite all the grandeur...there is no eyewitness" to the crime...
...Broadway production is an ice crystal gone a little soft at the edges. Courtenay, a veteran British stage performer probably best known here for his film roles (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Dr. Zhivago), offers a Vanya of precise but wistful enunciations, interspersed with moments of careening grandeur. But the rest of the cast is weak. Gerry Bamman overacts as the bankrupt landowner Telyegin. Amanda Donohoe (formerly of L.A. Law) looks lovely as the irresistible beauty Yelena but fails to wring any pathos from her realization that in life she has "always played a minor role...