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Like the best movie actors, Hanks is a superb reactor. His theater-trained voice often breaks into gentlemanly whining. His fretful brow expresses perplexity -- a thoughtful "Huh?" And then, in the subtlest shift, comic exasperation plummets into agony. Hanks justified his Philadelphia Oscar in one early scene outside Denzel Washington's law office. With no more than a long, longing look, he registers the despair of a dying man who feels utterly bereft, unheard, dismissed. This lovely little revelation has an antecedent in Big, when the overgrown kid sits alone in a creepy hotel room and ponders his dreadful solitude...
...they have no choice but to cover the rising costs of services and to make up for anemically low interest rates. "We are the largest branch network in New York state and the largest ATM network," says John Stack, managing director of branch banks at Chemical. "We have a superb offering to customers, which costs money, and we are in a low-interest-rate environment in which deposits are worth less to banks. When you combine those things, we must raise fees...
...Haitink led Figaro -- and the directors. Sir Peter Hall has done some of his best stagings here, as have Trevor Nunn and Jonathan Miller. But the key to Glyndebourne's success is the dozen or so coaches who prepare each opera meticulously. Beneficiaries liken their teaching to having a superb master class every day. Christie notes that "coaches have an awkward job mediating between the conductor and the singer. They need a feeling for what's best for the composer." Their ranks tend to be drawn from people on their way to becoming conductors or from would-be singers...
...excellent taste in art and music, of course; the "classy" (to use John Kennedy's word) side of Camelot -- the stylish redecorations, Pablo Casals at the White House and so on -- was her doing mostly. But it seemed to me that over the years her truly superb taste expressed itself in what might be called the stylishness of her privacy...
...feminist pioneer, or a woman of evil?" Muller's three-hour film does not answer the question. But it does a brilliant job of illustrating the superb talent, the energetic drive, and the moral ambiguity of Leni Riefenstahl...