Word: polished
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...gift for the startling image." The choreography is equally as startling. It consists of busy, fast-paced steps, completely departing from even neo-classical ballet in both movement and atmosphere. Duato's choreography is difficult and tricky, and Boston Ballets dancers executed it with athleticism, clarity and polish...
...Polish-born actor Klaus Kinski was a born mesmerizer with a rock star's gift for mischief. To put it another way, the guy was nuts, and Herzog had to be a bit eccentric to keep casting him; the five films they made together turned their friendship into a holy war. Yet the combustion produced amazing adventures: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which Kinski goes berserk in the Peruvian rain forest, and Nosferatu the Vampire, with the actor as a pathetic, rodentoid Dracula. This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration...
...there are few fancy toys but where things are noisy and fun and the mom is always ready to take everyone to the skating rink or the zoo. When a child begs for something--whether a $500 electric-powered baby Jaguar or a $7 bottle of lime-green nail polish--she's often just begging for a conversation with you. "Spoiling" is overindulgence combined with neglect, and kids can be spoiled at WalMart just as at FAO Schwartz...
...featured an array of disjointed murals on an extended platform staircase. The first scene of Act II, a boisterous rendition of a song called "Generations," replaces these murals with Noah's arc. The maneuvering of this set change was somewhat disjointed, but another day's rehearsal should polish the scene changes. The set in Act II becomes a vital part of the story of Noah and the Flood rather than merely an entrance and exit prop for the cast...