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...actor he can be. It would seem folly to cast Mastroianni as a nonentity were it not for his wonderfully bemused talents for self-effacement. Many of his best performances (8½, say, or The Organizer) have challenged and contradicted the popular notion of him as a kind of languid Lothario. Director Yves Robert makes no heavy demands of Mastroianni here, which is unfortunate. Nicholas' infrequent bouts with despair are as frivolous as anything else in his life, but Mastroianni has worked enough by now to know about making major moments out of minor incidents. There is at least...
...baritone is too dramatic for a legato line, his declamations are thrilling. Pavarotti, a money tenor in the way that Tom Seaver is a money pitcher, revels in his recklessly high flourishes. Sutherland fits into this bravura company, partly because she never tries to outshine her colleagues. A languid, settled presence onstage, she has been called in Italy, with affection and an edge of wit, La Serenissima (the most serene). At 49 she still sings with supple power, and her coloratura flights have the brilliance and definition of a fire works display when it first spreads out against...
Working like this within such a painstaking, cumbersome medium as film has its penalties. The movies can get ragged and confused, their pacing languid. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie shows much of what is exasperating about Cassavetes. The film is unfocused, loony, indulgent. It is also very much worth indulging-a brash, tense, mysterious night piece unlike anything Cassavetes has attempted before...
...calls "the biggest golden handshake any colonialist power has ever conferred on a former colony." Surinam will get $1.7 billion in aid over the next 10 to 15 years. At the same time, independence will mean giving up the right to unlimited immigration to The Netherlands. Last week in languid Paramaribo, one hit song was a mournful ballad called There Is No Room for Surinamese in Holland Any More...
...people in Baltimore took this defeat much better than the people in Boston would have. Things are much more languid in Baltimore. The city itself is larger and more square, its streets are wider and more regular, and the stadium is bigger and more conventional. People in Baltimore do not take any one game as seriously as Boston fans; there is a sense of permanence and resilience about the Orioles in Baltimore that would be utterly lost to the torrent of flesh that anguishes its way down Brookline Avenue after a Red Sox loss. When the Orioles lose, the boulevard...