Word: splendid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
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...
...Mezzo Dunja Vejzovic, Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, five records). Wagner's last and most difficult music drama has not had a really satisfying recording-until now. Hofmann makes Parsifal both strong and guileless, the splendid Van Dam is an anguished Amfortas, and Nimsgern is an evil, but not inhuman Klingsor. Only Vejzovic, a screechy Kundry, is weak. The real stars are Karajan and his Berliners, who capture the score's glowing spirituality and black magic in a luminous performance...
...people who turned out on Steep Hill Beach in Ipswich, Mass., for the eighth annual sand castle competition were armed with buckets and shovels-the basic tools for molding an uncooperative medium into an image of their fantasies. Among the sculptures were a baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John...
...semiprecious mots: "I hate posterity. It's so fond of having the last word." Another was Clovis Sangrail, a young man much given to the kind of "gorgeous hoax" that might scandalize a dull house party. Last came Comus Bassington, the hero-villain-victim of Saki's splendid novel The Unbearable Bassington, a tribute to lost youth that discovers deep sadness in the social shallows of Edwardian England...