Word: virtuoso
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Hamlet, as the theatrical cliché has it, is the play in which the title actor cannot fail. It might be truer to say that he can never wholly succeed. The part demands the range of a concert virtuoso, for Hamlet is both gentle and brutal, passionate and detached, slow to act yet violent in action-a volatile tangle of will, thought, word and deed. Hamlet is also the first supremely self-conscious hero to tread the stage. This is where Richard Pasco's failure is most manifest. He portrays a computer's Hamlet, mechanically feeding himself punch...
...this instance to these compositions that will forever be the background music of the '20s, '30s and '40s-classics like Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, I Got It Bad and Take the "A" Train. The Duke's piano is smoothly articulate and the new performances by his virtuoso orchestra are moody and melting...
...title are the ones that David carried into battle against Goliath; using roughly 82,000 cliched words per stone, the author indulges in literary overkill, with her sling relentlessly aimed at the bestseller lists. Her hero is a young, hypersensitive Southern Negro named David, a genius, jazz virtuoso and cripple, who makes his way from a dresser-drawer crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive more from The Hardy Boys...
Married. Hal Holbrook, 41, the virtuoso one-man show in Off-Broadway's long-running (174 performances) Mark Twain Tonight!; and Carol Rossen, 28, aspiring actress, daughter of Hollywood's late Producer-Director Robert Rossen (The Hustler); he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...main character in Man of Mode never comes to life. This is Dorimant, a lover who thrives on intrigue and conquers with a quick tongue -- demanding a graceful star with a virtuoso sense of timing. Mr. Keith has no tthe equipment to do the part. His speech is sing-song when it should be crisp; he moves with an awkward amble when sh should walk like a dancer; and he has a jarring resemblence to Bobby Kennedy, unfortunate for this part. He defies us to concentrate on his cuts and epigrams...