Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, since this is a fable, he turns out to be a marvel, a natural, who hits .444 that first season. A couple of years later, as Barr leads the New York Mets to a championship, sportswriters tell themselves that he isn't a better ballplayer than Gehrig, or Mays, or Williams. He couldn't be, could he? Better than DiMaggio? But his teammates know he is. They just don't know why. More than most athletic wonders, baseball skill is hidden, supernatural; just flick your wrists and it's a triple to left...
...only strong playing comes from Dominique Serrand (also the play's director and coauthor) as Carne, coauthor Felicity Jones as leading lady Arletty and set designer Vincent Gracieux as screenwriter Jacques Prevert. Their brainchild is one of the foremost efforts this year on any U.S. regional stage. By a marvel of foresight, it will live further as the first-ever "import" into Yale Repertory Theater's season just after the Minneapolis run ends...
...Bentzes do not have to worry about Luc's retired father. He collects more than 80% of his former salary in pension benefits and has access to free medical care. While most Americans would marvel at these entitlements, the Bentzes see nothing unusual in any of this. "I guess," Luc says, "you can say we're an average French family...
...1940s. Armed with a Speed Graphic, his car radio permanently tuned to the police band, he roamed the streets photographing urban life and death as he found it. Eventually his pictures made their way from tabloids to museums. A movie based on him might have been a marvel of period realism or a sharp study of the primitive as aspiring artist. Instead Howard Franklin's film involves him in a stupefying tale of government-Mafia corruption and a feckless romance with a nightclub owner (Barbara Hershey). It is, very likely, the year's most stupidly wasted opportunity...
...Moment to Marvel...