Word: paragone
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...metaphorical card game to puzzle even the most seasoned players. With four narrators at the table, each of whom bluffs, bets, and folds accordingly, Gavelis conducts a profound autopsy of Lithuanian identity garroted by Soviet rule. This ambitious endeavor is admirably achieved. Gavelis’ writing is a paragon of surrealist creativity and an intensely interesting read, filled with effortlessly intelligent prose and a wryly macabre voice. What’s at stake in “Vilnius Poker” is the namesake city, Lithuania’s capital, which is first introduced through the eyes of the most...
...Lugar, 76, is a paragon of bipartisan collegiality, renowned for vigorously pursuing the Senate's mandate to oversee the workings of the Executive Branch, even when his own party has been in power. (He was one of the more openly skeptical Republican voices on Capitol Hill regarding the Bush Administration's plans for post-war Iraq, and was an early and influential voice in planning a troop drawdown.) Lugar raised his concerns while assuring Clinton of his enthusiastic support for her confirmation - though he publicly warned his old friend from the Senate of a potential pitfall on her path...
...disappointed that you would expect preferential treatment!” Yet Rickman is woefully underutilized, and his few scenes only make his absence more palpable through the rest of the film.Steenburgen deftly tackles the more nuanced role of Sarah. She is simultaneously a gun-toting paragon of empowerment, an embarrassed and resentful wife, and a deeply loving and protective mother. The Oscar-winning Steenburgen portrays each of these facets with tenderness and commitment. A host of other talented actors pop up in the film, including Ted Danson, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, and Danny DeVito. With limited screen time, however, none...
...Compared to these early efforts, the magazine Hefner hammered out in the living room of his Chicago apartment was a paragon of high culture. Nudity aside, Hef conceived of Playboy as an aspirational publication - one which rightly framed sex as an all-American pursuit and sexual conquest as a badge of honor. The first issue of the magazine - which would have been called Stag Party but for threats of copyright infringement - sold about 54,000 copies, cementing the allure of Hef's smoking-jacket sensibility. By the swinging 1970s, the magazine's circulation surpassed seven million...
...Erisbe, Felicia Plunkett could not manage smooth transitions from comedy to farcical complexity to sobriety, allowing inappropriate smirks to marr her beautiful, lyric soprano. It can’t be easy, though, to betray three men simultaneously in the show’s first hour and emerge as a paragon of fidelity in the second one. She didn’t have an excellent romantic figure to work with in Jay Smith’s Ormindo, whose alto—bordering on soprano—was at first a bit disconcerting.James B. Onstad ’10 seemed to understand...