Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these failings, The Corn Is Green at times is carried by the sheer force of the Hepburn-Saynor tutoring sessions. Saynor makes Morgan's transition from scruffy youth to literate gentleman seem fully credible. Hepburn, as always, is a handsome paragon of moral rectitude and common sense. When this actress commands the screen, who could dare turn away...
...Ballet. He is the scarlet king of the revelers. He swivels into furious spins, only to leap high - and go right on whirling again. It is an audacious, fiendishly difficult cadenza on the pirouette. In other spins he slows down suddenly, as if sinking into his own momentum. For sheer bravura, the high light is a series of leaps that resemble a broad jumper's hitch kick. He kicks into the air with the left leg, brings the right even higher, executing in effect a double jump suspended in air. Robbins, who worked out this unprecedented move with Baryshnikov...
...extension of himself--a citadel of purity besieged by the persistent corruption of American capitalism and, worse, Western morals. He rejects it all, railing and carping in Updike's brilliant satirization of tunnel-eyed Marxist bombast, and secures his not-so-willing nation against the world by the sheer power of his will. The only problem is the drought...
...should know enough to stay away from such a gutsy jazz singer's standard. Serenade features Joe Farrell's tenor sax, an undersung quantity if there ever was one. Stanley Clarke performs a lengthy acoustic bass solo that is more a technical coup than a creative improvisation. His sheer enthusiasm makes the cut listenable despite serious intonation problems. Corea begins the show's finale with a 17 minute piano solo. His playing is so damned interesting that he very nearly carries off this whole venture by himself, and here, on his own, he imaginatively probes his Spanish roots and builds...
Judges could stand some self-imposed deadlines; in the Revlon vs. U.S. case, the judge's decision was not handed down until 1975, nine years after trial. But even the most skillful and best-intentioned judges may be thwarted by the complexity and sheer size of some cases. "How much can you narrow the issues when the question is, 'Did a two-decade course of conduct in an industry amount to willful monopolization?' " asks Judge Jon O. Newman, who presided over the SCM Corp.'s $1.5 billion antitrust suit against Xerox. Pretrial discovery took...