Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space behind the framing window looks infinitely deep; two of the objects (the slice of melon and the yellow tip of the cucumber) stick out a little into our space. Everything is painted with self-abnegating care, warts and all, becoming a tiny sample of the world as a marvel: not through weirdness or preciousness (as in the curio cabinets of the great) but through its ordinary, even blemished, but always singular character...
What makes the place so exceptional? For one thing, the acoustics are a marvel. The room is a long triangle with the stage at the apex, and there isn't a dead spot anywhere. "It's like playing inside a great horn," says piano veteran Tommy Flanagan. To Jacky Terrasson, a fast-rising young pianist who made his Vanguard debut three years ago, what's important is "the vibes-all your heroes have been there before, and you get this incredible energy." Not even a jazz immortal like Sonny Rollins is immune to the aura. "You feel the history...
...production really hits its stride with the entrance of the protagonist. Saccente's magnetic presence and strong voice are enough to bring order to the haphazard bumbling of the Donati clan. He is a marvel to watch. Taking care to ensure his delivery is clear and comprehensible, he displays a range of gesture and emotion that transcends the handwaving and mugging of some of the smaller roles. Here, we have comic subtlety of the true buffa coin...
...University, wrests the wheel of the four-wheel-drive Humvee from ALVINN while Dean Pomerleau, a C.M.U. robotics research scientist, makes excuses for their friend's driving. ``I guess he's a little confused,'' says Pomerleau. ``We'll let him try again in a minute.'' Still, ALVINN is a marvel--a road-hogging computer able to drive like a human. Well, almost...
...schedule still gives the Italian a chance to blow past the all-time season record of 13 wins posted in 1979 by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden. Tomba's comeback is a bottomless source of marvel for his adoring fans. His Olympic disappointments last year in Lillehammer, Norway, led the three-time Winter Games gold medalist to consider retiring. His father, among others, talked him out of it, Tomba says. Last summer he trained intensively in Argentina and Chile, shedding the between-competition flab that at times has made La Bomba look more like an overgrown bambino. He returned in harder...