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...smooth, unornamented style and a more decorative, vibrato-filled voice. Certain fast high notes, especially quick jumps up the range in the first few tenor solos sounded a touch over-breathy. However, as the piece progressed, Rickards' slow high sections became a real asset, showing off his incredibly pure, sweet timbre and bell-like resonance. Rickards' runs were exquisite and flawless, his style characterized by very creative use of flourishes, including several impressive octave-wide jumps from ending note to grace-note. A high moment in his performance came in the "He was despised" aria. Startlingly unadorned, this aria provided...
...Short and sweet means Slim's back...
None, of course. Unless you can find cold comfort in cold cash. Which is why a sardonic God invented negligence lawyers. Russell Banks, author of the novel from which Atom Egoyan derived The Sweet Hereafter, has, however, improved on His handiwork, creating in Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who chases settlements with a chills-and-fever passion that can be explained not by greed but by the suppurating wounds life has inflicted on him. The man, whom Holm plays with superbly controlled fanaticism, wants compensation from an unfair universe but finds momentary relief in squeezing more readily available targets...
...necessary for the townsfolk, who are stupid and sinful in more ordinary ways, to avoid being drawn into his vengeful scheming, to find a sweet hereafter in which they can at least partly heal. It is a young woman (Sarah Polley)--surely the daughter Stephens wishes he might have had--who opens them to that state of grace in this solemn, subtly structured, beautifully acted and ultimately hypnotic movie...
...Princeton game was sweet from a team perspective," Menick said. "It was such a big game. Watching Mike's kick go through was just a great feeling. I was glad to contribute...