Word: radiant
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...period of what most Americans deem racial healing. director Brett Milanowski of the small, professional Peabody House Theater in Sommerville has chosen to mount The Death of Bessie Smith to punctuate our healing with a question mark. Despite the good intentions of the cast and some genuine moments of radiant acting, The Death of Bessie Smith fails in its appointed role as wakeup call to the insidious prejudice which still permeates our society. The play may not accomplish precisely what the director has set out to do, but it certainly possesses a myriad of redeeming qualities...
...Reds (1981). Warren Beatty's epic is very much a recollection of Gone With the Wind, and it shares the Selznick classic's main failing: It takes too long getting to the war. Diane Keaton, we are told, is radiant enough to ensnare Beatty's Jack Reed and Nicholson's Eugene O'Neill -- but it's a captivation the viewer somehow doesn't share. And aren't "The Witnesses" just an endless parade of wizened faces fleshing out a story we'd rather watch ourselves...
...Prince of Key West. One night in 1971, Buffett was drinking, singing and passing the hat in the Chart Room bar when he met a radiant honey blond named Jane Slagsvol, who'd come to town for spring break from the University of South Carolina. The next night he saw her again, "wearing a tight, long pink dress that made a lasting impression on me." Jane moved in with Buffett and never did get back to school. They were married in 1977--the year Margaritaville hit--at an all-night Aspen blowout (the wedding band was the Eagles). But after...
George sat on the third-base side with his head tilted back, his face radiant under a shower of exploding light. The crowd ooohhhed chrysanthemums and aaahhhed weeping willows and the sound of exploding air. "Everybody loves fireworks," he said. "Democrats, Republicans, young, old, rich poor. It doesn't matter. Everybody loves them...
...choreography has failed to wear well, especially by comparison with the work of George Balanchine, the unrivaled master of neoclassical ballet, and Taylor and Cunningham, her apostate alumni. No more than half a dozen of her dances, most notably Cave of the Heart and Appalachian Spring (1944), her radiant re-creation of a pioneer wedding, seem likely to stand the test of time. The rest are overwrought period pieces whose humorless, lapel-clutching intensity is less palatable now that their maker is no longer around to bring them to life...