Word: spectacularness
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...sets were appropriately largescale and colorful, with a retrofuturistic spaceship and a powerfully suggestive open-jawed entrance to the Duchess Tisimmense's lair. The costumes were spectacular, especially the metallic droids', Hugh Jegg's and the Duchess' with its immense accoutrements...
...game played by young people at parties and weddings--something along the lines of "Name That Tune"--which focuses on Indian film music and gave everyone in the ensemble a chance to show off their singing, dancing and clowning skills. Vipin Goyal '98 and Shilpa Jain '98 wee particularly spectacular in their exuberant and riotous re-creation of a film dance, acting out a marital infidelity, argument and reconciliation...
...risk has its rewards." The risks are mostly of finance, not of film form. The big winners among little movies didn't dabble in delirious innovation (the hallucinogenic Trainspotting got only a screenplay nod). The primary appeal of their stories is not to the young mass audience, which prefers spectacular fantasy and broad comedy, but to older viewers, more sophisticated and more sentimental, liberal in their politics and conservative in their desire for humanist affirmation--folks very like the typical Oscar voter. This audience wants, as Fine Line president Ruth Vitale puts it, "movies that touch your heart, that make...
...best of group, best-in-show. Pa was one of the favorites, having defeated 93,725 other dogs in shows last year. But no standard schnauzer had ever won Westminster, and included among the seven finalists was one--just one--Dalmatian that had beaten Pa before: Ch. Spotlight's Spectacular. "Pa's the best dog I've ever seen," Roy Holloway said after he won best in breed, "but you just have to hope the judge feels the same...
...Classical Valentine." In fact, it was difficult, at a first glance of the program, to take the concert seriously at all, filled as it was with popular, nearly cliched pieces; such a program qualifies as musical overindulgence. Yet, in their concert on Sunday, the Handel & Haydn Society gave a spectacular performance, only confirming the words of Mae West: "Too much of a good thing is wonderful...