Word: masterwork
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...focus and heightens the emotional pitch of the play. Its theme comes across with blinding clarity - failure is the only sin Americans will not forgive. And Miller's language, often criticized as pedestrian, has been scoured to spareness since 1949. All in all, a redoubtable revival of a masterwork of the American theater...
...uncertainty that comes with getting it all before you have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork, a rock chorale dedicated to sanctifying women and fea turing the composer himself - singing like an androgynous elf, surrounded by hundreds of young girls, dressed in brid al gowns and crooning fervently...
...even the MIG-25 cannot fully match Johnson's masterwork, the sleek SR-71 Blackbird, a plane that can fly so high (100,000 ft.) and so fast (2,000 m.p.h. plus) that it was able to cruise near Peking's first H-bomb explosion over the Lob Nor desert of northeastern Sinkiang province in 1967. It took photographs and gathered data without being damaged by the blast. After such daring forays, SR-71 pilots would decorate their fuselages with the silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where...
...title, translated from its rendering in an Italian regional dialect, means "I Remember." The movie finds Fellini once again back in his boyhood, in the same place-Rimini, a small seaside town-and in rather the same mood as in his earlier masterwork, I Vitelloni (1952). The film's framework is a full year in this small town, from the coming of one spring to another, although the true time of all events seems to be rooted in Fellini's imagination. The look of clothes, the political talk and the movies people go to see fix the period...
...Threepenny Opera continues its smash run at the Loeb this week. Everyone who sees this production of Brecht's masterwork praises it, and about the only fault to be found with the whole show is that some of the actors aren't up to snuff as singers. So what? The Summer Rep has reportedly realized all the political potential of the play, and that alone is reason enough to go see it. Shows tonight thru Thursday begin at 8; for the next two days admission is $4.95, the price goes up a buck on Thursday...