Word: superbness
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...problem does not, however, lie with the young cast, which is superb. When the lights come up on Kevin-Anthony Close and Monica Dorten, perched on stools in one corner of a vast blue stage that projects out into the audience like a table, the two actors seem like lambs ready to be sacrificed. But they pull it off. Clad in overstaffed purple tunics, cousins to the Fruit of the Loom grapes, they whisper hilarious jibberish to each other at the approach of a hungry fox, then break out into a scornful jive patois when the fox can't leap...
...taste for human folly, and he senses there is a whopper in the making up the road. Scola's imagery has a maturity that matches the script's subtlety of detail and simplicity of overall vision. The actors play characters first, ideas second, and they are superb, none more so than Mastroianni, who contemplates age as wryly as once he eyed the opposite sex. La Nuit de Varennes lasts more than three hours, but it passes in a moment. It is only in memory that it lingers - very likely forever. -By Richard Schickel
...icewomen managed to put together two superb periods of hockey--on the heels of their worst first period of the year--to post a 7-1 victory over the hapless Polar Bears in Brunswick yesterday...
Lost in the offensive assault was the continued superb play of Tate, who has now recorded five shutouts in the last seven games. Tate stopped 19 Bulldog shots Sunday before giving way in the third period to Tracy Kimmell...
...topple the Huskies, the Crimson will need a fully recovered Hurley and Ward, an aggressive checking game and a superb performance from netminder Cheryl Tate, last year's tournament...