Word: splendid
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...production shortchanges some of the most famous scenes of Mother Courage--"The Song of Capitulation," "Solomon's Song"--but it does have its moments. Peter Becker's "Son of the Hours" is splendid, as are some of the comic interludes. And Mother Courage makes far better use of that enormous Mainstage space than did Agamemnon and some of the other undergraduate disasters of years past...
...believed to be still left. Conservationists estimate that 40% of the vertebrates that have become extinct around the world in recent years have died off in the Caribbean. Scientists can only guess how many species of plants are permanently gone. Such losses represent a tragic assault on the splendid diversity of terrestrial life. They deprive us of genetic varieties that could have been valuable for any number of purposes, from supplying natural pharmaceuticals to offering the genes for crossbreeding hardier plants...
...white-bearded comedic master as Rex Harrison. He starred in the 1941 film version of Major Barbara, then played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of Pygmalion. Now Harrison is again setting the Shavian standard, this time with Diana Rigg, 44, and a thoroughly splendid cast in a production of Heartbreak House, which opened triumphantly at the Haymarket Theater in London's West End last week. For his role as the 88-year-old Captain Shotover, Harrison, only 75, managed to age himself by growing his own set of Shotover whiskers. Of course in the play...
...when it was the hit of the season, On Your Toes was considered daring, the play that introduced serious dance to the Broadway musical. What was startling then is customary now, and there is only one surprise in this splendid revival, which opened on Broadway last week. It is the unexpected pleasure of seeing how well the old girl has aged and hearing once again some of the loveliest songs that ever bounced off a second balcony...
...image of light radiating through glass calls back echoes of Shelley's elegy "Adonais," in which he describes life as "a dome of many coloured glass. Staining the white radiance of Eternity." Williamson acknowledges his debt to that splendid elegy: "And how Shelley outlived his death by writing it..."The Romantic poet, after concluding his elegy to Keats with an image of death by water, drowned and was found with a copy of Keats' poems...