Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conservative Quinn, who succeeds Cincinnati's moderate Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, is best known for administrative skill and intellect, both useful at a time of continuing conflict between the bishops and dissidents agitated about such things as Rome's positions on divorce and birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still...
...simply ludicrous. More believably-indeed, touchingly-the two older women are granted, through the girl, the opportunity to come to terms with some unresolved issues. Bancroft, a would-be mentor, must fight through her resentment of youth and that freshness of talent for which no amount of hard-won skill can totally compensate. As for MacLaine, she comes to see that she cannot live through her daughter the life she did not choose. Both get a chance to work out their previously unspoken grudges, on the night of the girl's première, in a knockdown fight...
...ruse does not work in any case, for at the end of Heroes one does not pity the Viet Nam dead so much as the casualties in the movie's cast. Chief among them is Sally Field, the film's love interest and an actress of considerable skill. In Heroes she plays a young woman who is also on the road to find herself, but the character is so clumsily defined that she is a blur upon the screen. Harrison Ford, the witty Han Solo of Star Wars, fares no better-but such is Kagan's touch...
...Alison" is the album's most interesting song. A ballad, it's unsettling in the same way as "I'm Not Angry"--what Costello says works at cross-purposes with how he says it. The music is quiet and lyrical, and another aspect of Costello's instrumental skill is revealed in the reflective, jazz-like guitar figures he plays under the vocal. The words, however, belie the tradition of rock and roll ballads to lost loves. Yes, there's sadness there for what used to be--but the norm in classic rock lyrics is the graceful acquiescence, and Costello will...
This is the Metropolitan Opera's second season under the joint leadership of Music Director James Levine, 34, and Director of Production John Dexter, 52. They are men of skill and self-assurance, and when they succeed, as they did last winter with Berg's Lulu, they justify the Met's often advertised suggestion that to buy one of its tickets is to "strike a blow for civilization." When Levine and Dexter miss, they raise worries about the wisdom of dual artistic control. Last week's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto was about...