Word: splendored
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...Karen and Philip pause for long moments. Bonnie, a senior on her class trip from Starbuck, Minn., traces with her fingertip the familiar signatures: G. Washington, B. Franklin. Principal Dennis Trump, shepherding 40 students from South Sioux City (Neb.) High, says with fervor, "It's a feeling of splendor to see the things you hold dear. All the meaning and truth of the whole idea come together...
...Godspell is the special contemporary relevance of the Christian message. The show's book is the Good Book, and its lyrics mostly simple exhortations to faith; but here the Word is transplanted to a junkyard where the innocents who make themselves up as Jesus' disciples cavort in patchwork splendor...
Eventually, the U.S. will have to recognize united Vietnam. But the Vietnamese consistently stress their independence of other countries, including the Soviet Union and China. "Without the cold and bleakness of winter," Ho Chi Minh once wrote, "the warmth and splendor of spring could never be. Misfortunes have steeled and tempered me, and further strengthened my resolve...
Giancarlo Giannini is the storm center of the movie, and he acts Pasqual ino with sulfurous splendor. Giannini, with eyes of stinging intensity, has been leading man for Wertmuller in all her movies released in America. Like her, Giannini knows how to work right at the taproot of his character. There has been no one quite like him since Mastroianni, but Giannini shows an even wider range, not just of roles, but of spirit...
...Truffaut's most visually luscious films. Sometimes, Adele is beautiful, though more often she is too concerned with her emotions to care about her looks and her face is tearful and puffy. But the rest of the characters, and all the scenery, is a catalogue of splendor. Truffaut's nineteenth century Halifax is magnificent inside and out, from the lichen-crusted castle battlements to the oak interiors of the houses and the cozy Victorian bookshop. The climax of the film--in Barbados--is more exotic, but here too the emphasis is on beauty, even when the camera moves in crowds...