Word: lambent
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CHINATOWN. The year's most skilled and elegant Hollywood entertainment. A Los Angeles private eye (sardonically played by Jack Nicholson) stumbles into a slough of personal and political corruption. The movie is a lambent caution about the dread but immutable uses of wealth and power...
Daughter lacks the stature of Donizetti's comic masterpieces Don Pasquale and L'Elisir d'Amore, but it does provide Sills with countless opportunities for lambent fioriture, whistling-high E-flats, and howling farce. Her windup salute, which starts somewhere near her right thigh and then circles deliciously upward, has to be seen to be believed. So does the way she gives her dancing master a knee in the chin, or wraps him around her neck while learning to do the quadrille...
...with the in-laws. Then one day Johan tells Marianne that he has fallen in love with a young student in his university seminar and is leaving to be with her. All the blood seems to drain out of Marianne's body. Ullmann even manages to make her lambent sapphire-blue eyes turn pale. In the Mediterranean she might have howled. In Scandinavia, even emotional desolation is sculpted...
...first attempt at a novel, Wicker tells about a liberal Senator from the South. The poor chap is driven into trying for the presidential nomination by his enigmatic wife ("eyes of the smoky lambent blue that drifts mistily on soft Southern mountains"). Inevitably, the events are recollected by a veteran Washington correspondent, one Richmond P. Morgan ("The Professional," in Wicker's chest-thumping epithet), who got his start covering the Senator's first campaign. Inevitably too, Morgan is now the lover of the Senator's smoky, lambent wife, as well as bureau chief for an unnamed...
...shrill and self-assertive the voices of most novelists sound after listening to Giorgio Bassani tell a story. The former editor of the literary magazine Botteghe Oscure and the discoverer of Giuseppe (The Leopard) Lampedusa, Bassani is best known in the U.S. for his lambent novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis from which the recent Vittoria De Sica film was made. Like Garden, this book is set in the author's native city of Ferrara during the 1930s. Also as in Garden, the narrator of Behind the Door is a wealthy, sensitive young...