Word: splendid
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...have all been the poorer for this. And we are infinitely the richer for his sudden and glorious reincarnation by Gerard Depardieu in Jean-Paul Rappeneau's faithful and generous adaptation of Rostand's work. For the film not only restores this splendid spirit to his rightful place in our consciousness but also redeems a virtually abandoned cinematic tradition...
...decently, for an amateur. Though his prose sloshes with pomposity -- "reserved for my lone delectation" is a standard clunker -- his book does well because he sees what is admirable in the splendid anarchism of the great players. He tells the story, among many other good ones, of the late Jack Straus, who, while waiting in federal court to be tried on a tax charge, was touched by the plea of another defendant that a $35,000 judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only...
...just a while, White Palace makes good on the promise and seriousness of these two splendid movie icons. He is a brooding Brahmin copywriter, she a blowsy waitress who tries to pick him up at a bar. It's class vs. crass. While he acts aloof and demure, she flatters his prettiness, then gets quickly to the business at hand. Soon they are shrugging off age prejudices like unwanted clothes, the quicker to satisfy their passion. She: "I'm 43." He: "I'm 27." Who cares? Wham! Their sex scenes, more intense than anything in the NC- 17 Henry & June...
...this show had to be done -- and at a high level of curatorial skill -- in Indiana. No New York museum plans to take it; nor could Manhattan venues be found for Franz Kline, Guido Reni, early Poussin, De Stijl, Lucian Freud and quite a number of other splendid and informative exhibitions mounted by museums west of the Hudson in the past few years. There is something unpalatable about this, a dismal message about the provincial art politics of the supposed center...
...angry at critics who suggest he is skirting the brink of war to pump up his political standing and divert attention from the nation's economic angst. The real danger is far more subtle and menacing. It lies in the environment of the presidency itself. In the splendid isolation of the White House, the best and the brightest in crisp uniforms and Brooks Brothers pinstripes can, with purpose and convincing logic, expound the virtues of force to fill the voids of doubt that come with such crises. That happened to Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam. It made so much sense...