Word: well-chosen
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Avoiding his hits, Costello made few mistakes indeed. The show was highlighted by some well-chosen medleys, combining Costello originals and covers, with the latter enhancing and illuminating the former. The attachment of "Not Face Away" to "Uncomplicated" revealed Costello as a latter-day Buddy Holly who goes to meet Peggy Sue with lexicon in hand. His interpretation of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said" gave an easy swing to its companion, "Radio Sweetheart." And the way that the Beatles' "Hide Your Love Away" flowed out of "New Amsterdam" clearly displayed the desperation that inspired the Costello original...
...twenty-one and enter the world of adulthood. I'll probably buy a house, get a car and maybe even start paying taxes. Now, my Harvard education has taught me to take seriously such important decisions, to analyze the benefits of all my options. Yet, among a person's well-chosen commodities, there is one large investment that is usually made haphazardly. Beer...
...well-chosen cast of kings, queens, giants, cuckolded husbands, adulterous wives, lecherous womanizers, sexy nuns, chivalrous soldiers and all sorts of other stock Medieval types. Everyone in this play is truly outstanding, and Watson himself, as the director, must be credited with inciting the histrionics and natural energy necessary to hold the audience members' attention as they sit sipping coffee, contemplating a 10-page paper or chatting with their dining companion...
...puck was continually in the Harvard end as Northeastern directed 12 well-chosen first period shots at Crimson netminder Jennifer White...
...make a "popcorn" movie after the commercial failure of his Four Friends, but what's emerged was an unhappy hybrid of character and action. At unexpected moments, in well-observed snatches of behavior and individual shots, just enough character is conveyed and just enough emotional content to keep the audience aware of something more than the standard cloak-and-dagger thriller. And the plot does have a few well-chosen twists before it goes on cruise control and coasts to an unsatisfying climax--an extended last shot misfires badly as the reunited family is upstaged by an explosion...