Word: splendidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Montana show that the animals were dying well before the asteroid hit. Says he: "We probably shall never know why these fabulous reptiles, so long the masters of the continents, should have disappeared completely from the earth." It is the only really pessimistic, and perhaps questionable, note in this splendid retrospective account...
...Kingsley's triumph is one of energy over inspiration. He seems not to realize that in a one-man show, the only person he can upstage is himself. One wants to say to him: Ben, you got the part. Relax a little, and be what you are: a splendid actor and a brand-new star. -By Richard Corliss
...final assessment of him came only when an enormous retrospective exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 made it possible for the first time to see the myriad elements of his work all together and in perspective. He had been dead seven years, but the Museum of Modern Art's splendid show was, as much as any battlefront communiqué, news...
...Olivia's life permeates Heat and Dust, and enables Anne to live as Olivia ought to have lived, single, independent and pregnant. The cast of supporting actors gives splendid performances. Nickolas Grace's Harry bridges the gap between Olivia and Anne. During the 1920s he is the carefree, slightly morose house guest of the prince who becomes a confidant of Olivia. In 1982 he tries to explain to Anne what motivated the earlier characters Grace gives a delightfully stylized and vapid performance endowing Hany with deeply sunk eyes and a degenerate sense of humor...
...Date Garden is now tidied up, a splendid Chinese garden. No sounds echo through it, no bugles sound in the morning. It was all abustle in its glory days, but now the water ripples silently through the irrigation ditch and the pears and apple trees in springtime's pink and white blossoms offer their beauty only to occasional visitors...