Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George F. Walker, one of Canada's leading writers yet largely unknown in the U.S. -- although his Beautiful City, part of a trilogy touching on the same family, has just finished a run in Chicago, and Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, had a splendid production starring Tom Hulce at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum in 1988. Walker's work certainly travels. Although Escape was originally set in Toronto, Lewis' staging makes it feel entirely American, from the opening moment, when a battered TV onstage starts blaring The Donna Reed Show, to the snarling climax, when...
...absolutely outstanding," said department Chair Benjamin M. Friedman '66. "He's a wonderful scholar and a splendid teacher...
...actors' shoulders. Teyssedre deliver, the best performance in the movie, evolving from the sober young teacher of the beginning to a mature and self possessed woman. Teyssedre makes Jeanne an intensely likable creation and provides the film with its radiant core. Beautiful and petulant, Darrell gives a splendid performance as Natacha, a confused and complex eighteen year-old wavering between adolescence and adulthood...
...enterprise, and in choosing one, Balmain has taken a major gamble. Not only is he brand new to the house, but he isn't even French. He's -- mon Dieu! -- an American. Oscar de la Renta, 60, the elegant, experienced hand who has practically cornered the U.S. market on splendid evening clothes, is the first American ever to take over a French couture business...
...poster of a seductive Josephine Baker for "Prinsesse Tam-Tam" (1953), a French film, is particularly striking as is the terrifying poster of a mounted Klansman for "The Birth of a Nation." The posters, in general, are fascinating and often artistically interesting, especially since the splendid colors are kept alive on the glossy pages...