Word: splendid
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...Classicist. Magic Johnson, for all his flair, was a Classicist who controlled the tempo of the game; Julius ("Dr. J") Erving was a Romanticist who played according to his own rhythms. Although he has all the skills and talents of a Classicist, Jordan is a Romanticist. He is a splendid passer and defender, but those skills are subordinate to his individual genius. Any player who goes up in the air not knowing what he is going to do with the ball until he gets there is most certainly a Romanticist...
...Splendid Splinter still turns up in commercials every once in a while, but most of us don't need these occasional glimpses to remember...
...cute kids, their mother dead, their father sunk in despair. A splendid white horse who adopts them. Cruel adults who try to separate boys and steed. A comical-adventurous attempt by the innocents to escape their wicked -- or at least unfeeling -- oppressors...
...shadow of its older rival in Stratford, Ontario, not least because an institution dedicated to Shaw sounds less prestigious than one devoted to Shakespeare. The best of this season's work, however, is competitive with that of any resident troupe in North America. For Shaw fans there is a splendid if deeply conventional Candida, staged by Newton and starring the estimable Seana McKenna, formerly a jewel of Stratford, plus a novel Saint Joan that turns her trial into a modern-day government inquiry cum media event. For popular tastes there are Blithe Spirit, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were...
...BOTTOM LINE: In a splendid set, the popmeister goes mopin', hopin' and doo-woppin' in no-man's-land...