Word: superbness
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...appeal is not only going to make headlines and money. It is going to make stars. The Godfather is blessed with brilliant acting. Marlon Brando, of course, is the big news, revitalizing his erratic reputation with a performance of power and poignance as the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone. Yet superb as he is, Brando is merely reclaiming a position already staked out. In some ways more exciting are the clutch of little-known younger performers who burst forth in the film. Of these, none is more compelling than a short, brooding coil of tension named Al Pacino...
...whole pattern of late medieval painting. "No patron of his time, and few before or after him, had a comparable effect on the arts," wrote Art Historian Millard Meiss. "Between 1380 and 1400 every great cycle of miniatures in France was commissioned by the Duke of Berry." A superb exhibition of 14th and 15th century French miniature painting, organized by Professor Meiss, is now on view at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library. Inevitably, its central character is the bottle-nosed prince who made it possible...
There is hardly any sentimentality here, but much clear-eyed love and some surprising beauty. Among the most beautiful people in the book is a superb old lady of 85 named Aunt Arie, who lives alone in a log cabin with well water and the food she raises. One of Wigginton's editors writes, introducing a long conversation with Aunt Arie, "As we talked, she told me how she used to live, but without feeling sorry for herself and without saying how many miles she walked to school each...
...John Taverner was pure and on pitch--a welcome relief from the shakiness common to amateur groups' lead pieces at a concert. The chant that began the Magnificat was perfect simplicity and contrasted strongly with the thick polyphonic texture that followed. Of the eleven sections, the Gloria was superb. One huge melisma on the second syllable of principio seemed to suspend all motion and thought...
...feel part of a tradition? I think any writer to some extent inherits the mid-nineteenth century New Englanders--I think we all benefit from Emerson's marvelous sense of what an American is, from Melville's superb thunder, from Thoreau's jackal and all that...