Word: splendid
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Indeed, so powerful has that image been that one sometimes forgets how splendid he has been as a character actor. The military martinet of Fort Apache, the cold-eyed outlaw of Once Upon a Time in the West, even the hilariously befuddled herpetologist "Hopsy" Pike of The Lady Eve-they all light up in one's memory as the spirit that animated them flashes in Fonda's eyes. Without raising his voice he gives a bravura performance as he moves from depressed withdrawal to momentary rages, from the struggle to express affection to the struggle not to express...
...Five are the Philadelphia Orchestra, once magnificent but facing an uncertain future in the hands of its new music director, Riccardo Muti, and the New York Philharmonic, a temperamental band, even under Zubin Mehta, that rarely deserves to be included in such fast company. There are worthy, even splendid, orchestras in such cities as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco that do not deserve also-ran status...
...time when Broadway is as busy and financially flush as it has been in decades (see following story), the coming of Nickleby demonstrates that it can also accommodate the highest quality. The R.S.C. has fashioned an epic of feeling and intelligence ? a vertiginous celebration of life upon the splendid stage...
...inflation has not exactly devoured the dream, it has taken a painful bite out of it. Good, even splendid houses are still built; America is not suddenly being driven out into hovels and Hoovervilles. But the number of Americans who can afford first-class housing is dwindling. The median price of a new home has gone from $20,000 in 1965 to $70,000 in 1981. The traditional budget formula said that a family should spend no more than one-quarter of gross income on housing. If they obey that rule, less than 10% of Americans can afford a median...
Education Week's first edition offered a splendid scoop: a series of excerpts from the 91-page secret memo written by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell telling how he plans to dismantle the Education Department and change the Government's role in education. Wolk's staff of 20 provides a weekly summary of education news in short takes, plus clear but comprehensive studies of major issues. One notable example: a detailed and trenchant analysis of the status and achievements of busing just as the policy is about to be abandoned. The paper's 19,000 charter...