Word: shimmers
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...leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded 30 or 40 years ago. It was a final courageous flourish, and typically Davis. From struggle and defiance he drew his power, right...
...Francisco Days, Isaak continues to refine a style that, despite a '90s shimmer, is steeped in the strum and twang of the lonesome-cowboy blues. Backed by spare, guitar-centered arrangements, Isaak's compositions convey the aching pang of emotion without ever sounding wimpy. On Beautiful Homes his rich tenor throbs with vulnerability as he sings, "I stare at your window and I cry/ I love you so much/ I love you too much." He brings equal ardor to Two Hearts, a Latin-tinged Valentine levitated by his soaring falsetto, and a stirring remake of Neil Diamond's Solitary...
Catherine Zuber's costume design comes close to salvaging the play. The lampshade dresses trail and flow and shimmer, and their colors serve to accentuate the personalities of the characters--who, considering the quality of the acting, need all the buttressing that they...
...Woman, which retells the story of Manuel Puig's novel and the noted film. The new version comes from a North American cast and creators, headed by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb and director Harold Prince -- the makers of Cabaret, which Kiss often recalls in its silvery visual shimmer, sexual ambiguity, bursts of surreality and blend of grim politics and show-biz glitter. But unlike Cabaret, which used a Berlin nightclub for satiric comment on the rise of the Nazis, Kiss looks to shadowy passages from old movies for sentimental uplift. They suggest that art, more than life, teaches...
...artful and full of portent, who completes our entrancement. He has -- no kidding -- a vision of New York City, a nicely dislocating blend of charm and grunge. It's not quite real, not entirely fanciful. It is a child's-eye view of the place, full of glamorous shimmer and eerie shadows, a haunted Disneyland...