Word: superbness
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Except for one bried foray into Last Tango in Paris the superb player never even touched upon a single request for his old music--not even Encuentros--to his audience's dismay...
...Secret Service may already have as much money and as many agents as it can practically use. Generally, its protection of a President once he is on the move has been superb. But if it needs more money and manpower to check out security risks ahead of a visit and follow suspected dangerous people during a Ford appearance, it should be given such resources. Inevitably, delicate judgments would still have to be made. There is no way to tail or detain every marginally threatening person...
...estimates of O'Hara's work ranged from raves to pans throughout his long career. If a conspiracy was afoot, it was singularly anarchic. What is worse, the unfriendly reviews that Bruccoli quotes are invariably more persuasive than his own dust-jacket gushings about works that are "superb," "brilliant," "powerful" and "extraordinary...
...pace of this Menagerie, directed by Robert Lisack, is slow at first, its tone somber almost to the point of dreariness. What sustains the show, until the superb climactic scene, is the generally high caliber of the acting. Bonnie DeLorme as Amanda is a classically stifling mother. Both harridan and guardian, she pines over her lost youth as a southern belle and happily nurses the memory of the day she entertained 17 gentleman callers. DeLorme's gestures are a bit awkward at times, but her lips, pouting or trembling, and her eyes, gazing into the past or seeing a future...
...life of a journalist presents certain problems for the biographer, problems which Rosenstone does not adequately resolve. Why read about John Reed in Leningrad when we have his own superb account of the period, Ten Days That Shook the World, or about his adventures with Villa's troops when they are carefully chronicled in Reed's In-surgent Mexico...