Word: virtuoso
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...inch penis. Boogie Nights has been described as an expression of the mythological American dream, as an interpretation of two extraordinary American decades and as a portrait of a uniquely American family. It is all these things in the capable hands of Anderson, who is rightly lauded as a virtuoso. Anderson's feat evokes an interesting question: Why does the modern essence of our country lend itself so nicely to the symbolism of hard-core pornography...
...name is Freddy Heflin, and in Cop Land--a sharp-eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta...
...Buff' Chandler...almost singlehanded raised a staggering $18.5 million to build [the Music Center], and organized a company to float another $13.7 million in bonds to finish the job. It was perhaps the most impressive display of virtuoso money-raising...in...U.S. womanhood... 'What is important here tonight,' she said [later that evening], 'is not the fund raising or the building that we are in. The only really important thing here tonight is the music we heard performed. That will go on forever...
Director Anthony Page doesn't allow McTeer's virtuoso turn to overshadow a fine supporting cast, particularly Owen Teale (who also appeared in the London production) as Torvald. He's uptight and patronizing but far from a foolish figure. When he stands alone after Nora leaves, we feel the full impact of the play's emotionally complex climax: both triumph (a woman freed) and tragedy (a family broken), a cause for cheers and for weeping. Most theatergoers will simply let out a slow exhale, after an evening that takes the breath away...
...enough pride in being a mecca for American culinary delicacies that do not happen to be delicate. The city council has never even responded to the suggestion I made years ago, for instance, that one of the Missouri River bridges be named in memory of Chicken Betty Lucas, a virtuoso of the cast-iron skillet...