Word: superbness
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Baryshnikov's superb execution of movement communicates to us through our emotions. It is his combination of antitheses-vulnerability, strength; youth, control; solo work, partnering; serenity, volatility-that makes him this generation's most gifted dancer...
Lulu has a blustery intensity that finds its source largely in the superb performance of Gian Maria Volonte. He plays the conscientious and eventually disconcerted Lulu with just the right mixture of dumb charm and derangement. It is Petri's thesis that the industrial state can be located somewhere between depersonalization and psychosis, and Volonte is eminently capable of covering the range in between. His Lulu is a creature of blind dedication with the best production record in the factory. No matter that he comes home too bushed to enjoy the amorous invitations of his mistress (the wonderful Mariangela...
...superb tactician who can play hound or hare with equal skill...
What is interesting is the freak show, the long line of grumpy midgets, washed-out showmen, and childishly cruel, empty-headed blondes seeking to fill the vacuity of their existence with rich and "devilishly" handsome men. The performances in the film are on the whole superb. Burgess Meredith is excellent as Harry, Faye's father, who has come to Los Angeles after a long career on the vaudeville circuit, now reduced to selling bogus cure-alls door-to-door to the indifferent and openly contemptuous rich. He is the compulsive actor, always "on", even in the midst of his death...
...from the painter to the viewer, rather than as things colored by the presence of this or that owner. In that regard, the Lehman be quest has set a precedent that one hopes will not be followed by lesser collectors eager for self-commemoration. Nevertheless, the collection itself remains superb: an extraordinary addition to the Metropolitan and, by extension, to the quality of imaginative life in New York...