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Executive Producer Sidney Glazier saw to it that the contest is played out against the right backdrop: Irish locations, filmed lovingly by Gerry Fisher, and a cast of splendid faces, as hard and gnarled as blackthorn walking sticks. As directed by Jack Gold, Catholics fairly aches with monkish verisimilitude. When Kinsella's arrival at the abbey prompts Father Manus (a delightful cameo by Cyril Cusack) to rustle up a feast of fresh salmon, the viewer can almost taste...
Sarris simply hasn't written much at all lately, and what he has written has been listless at the core. You could once imagine his effusions as if they emerged from a fevered monk of an arcane order. They now seem merely monkish. And the decline can be attributed both to the burning out of an inherently neurotic talent, and the barrenness of Sarris's critical dogmas...
...Slightly Monkish. The birthday was 40 years ago, though Brendel looks older; his high-domed, intellectual forehead is balding from two directions, and his pale eyes and thick glasses give him af slightly monkish appearance. Says Iris Brendel, his beautiful, Argentine-born wife, "We once received a letter from an unknown admirer which said, I only know you from your records. Are you as beautiful as you are talented?' We sent back a picture and that settled that...
...monkish illuminator on the brain's vellum, a contemplative who shunned the world of action and became one of the very few 20th century painters who could work small without implying some degree of frustration. Paul Klee's natural space was a scrap of paper ten inches wide, and all its perspectives faced inward. "I have never," said his friend Jankel Adler, "seen a man who had such creative quiet. His face was that of a man who knows about day and night, sky and sea and air. I have often seen Klee's window from...
Motorcycle Monks. The rest of the program is devoted to a sampling of the company's favorite showstoppers; familiarity does not dim their luster. In Partisans, a cadre of dancers glides mysteriously across the stage in voluminous black cloaks, suggesting a team of monkish motorcycle racers. The finale is perhaps the most extraordinary Moiseyev dance of them all-a Ukrainian gopak in which half a dozen tireless soloists outbound each other in a sequence of eye-dazzling maneuvers that defy both gravity and credibility...