Word: stylishness
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...swallow the charm of this genuinely talented troop. "Saltimbanco" comes equipped with a live New Age band, a light show and a smoke machine that won't quit. This accumulated wattage makes some of the stagier numbers feel more like the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza than the quirky, stylish acts for which Cirque du Soleil has won praise...
...central to Pigs. But it is also an on-the-road novel. Taylor's old Dodge covers a lot of territory as Kingsolver guides her story to a middle ground between Tom Robbins' potty detachment and Louise Erdrich's righteous commitment to Native American causes. The result is a stylish romp with a nonconfrontational conclusion. Turtle is launched toward a two-culture future and possibly another sequel...
...Hard Target" is worth seeing if only for the promise it shows for a new kind of action movie. Some of the worst cliches are discarded and some expert stylish touches are included. As a result the pacing is uneven and definitely unpredictable...
Novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle (Water Music, World's End) is a writer of prose that is very stylish indeed, though the thought wafts through a doubter's mind that he has not yet written anything quite as splendid as his own name, which like his paragraphs he parts nattily on the left. Boyle's flaw in his past work has been to seem a bit precious and self-pleased. His new novel is one of his better efforts, though effort is the key word here, and the result is, at best, a story that is amusing and interestingly...
...BOTTOM LINE: A whistle-slick set of stylish tunes is a reminder that there's still genius beneath the hustle...