Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many have lamented the loss of the LP, and with it comparatively vast acreage for album-cover art. True, no CD packaging on the market today can match the eye-dazzling splendor of original pressings of Frampton Comes Alive. But CDs are becoming miniworks of art, as our favorite recent examples attest...
...those who do not agree? John Paul's most recent encyclical, Veritatis splendor -- The Splendor of Truth -- makes it clear that clerics and theologians are bound to a "loyal assent." He has imposed the equivalent of ecclesiastical gag orders on those who, he feels, have challenged church teaching, including Kung, American moral theologian Charles Curran and Brazil's Leonardo Boff, an exponent of Liberation Theology...
Primal Disney on the African plains: a lion cub survives banishment and his father's death. This cartoon feature (directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff) has the glories of narrative savvy, voicemanship, lively songs and scenic splendor -- familiar Disney virtues but still fresh and fine...
...with his new wardrobe from Barney's, certainly dresses the part of University president. But I pick Lee not for his sartorial splendor but for his fundraising abilities. He might even do a better job than that Donald Kennedy fellow at Stanford...
Household names on the marquee do not, of course, guarantee dramatic splendor inside. The Branagh play is a trifle that searches for nightmare poetry in "plain old American-Irish English" and for political significance in the story of a Belfast punk (Paul Ronan) obsessed by the grit and grace of Jimmy Cagney. It finds none of the above, lost as it is in a muddle of moralizing and attitudinizing. But it shares a potent theme with the season's cannier off-Broadway ventures: that star worship is a virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone...