Word: well-chosen
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Ripe-voiced Graham is well on her way to becoming the Renee Fleming of mezzo-sopranos. Her starring role in the San Francisco Opera's upcoming premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking will probably do the trick. So why not board the bandwagon early? Her new CD, a collection of 32 well-chosen art songs by Ned Rorem, is already a prime candidate for Best-of-2000 status. Graham's singing is smart and sumptuous, while Rorem's French-flavored songs--bittersweet, transparent, unsentimentally lyrical--are the best that any American classical composer has given...
...family's home at a party thrown in her honor. After Cecilia's death, the remaining sisters are cloistered in the house only allowed to leave for school, by their oppressive and overprotective parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon, played by James Woods and Kathleen Turner. Woods and Turner are well-chosen to visually represent two parents who neurotically keep their children guarded from the dangers that lurk in the pernicious garden of the suburbs. The outspoken leader of the siblings is Lux Lisbon, played by Kirsten Dunst, the sexually prurient, mischievous sister who seems to negotiate with the outside world...
...surgical procedure with all the attendant risks of any surgical procedure," says Dr. Mark Mannis, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California at Davis, who has performed the operation on a weekly basis for the past four years. "It is highly successful in the vast majority of well-chosen cases, but"--and here you have to pay close attention--"each of those words I said is very important." The best candidates, he emphasizes, are those adults whose sight is only moderately distorted, whose vision is stable and who have no other eye problems. Even so, complications occur that...
...suggests essay topics, then shows how to research and organize a report. Kids can cut and paste information onto electronic "note cards" included in the program, then export them to a word processor for editing and arranging. In addition to the basic encyclopedia entries for each topic, there are well-chosen Web links. These proved to be just what I needed for my personal research on the Dalai Lama. I subsequently skipped to the dictionary for a definition of Buddhism and then went to the atlas to pinpoint Tibet. Having all those resources in one place really helped speed...
...simple, subtle or conventional about director Tina Packer's interpretations and logistical choices. But Packer does not allow the production's grandiose ambition to get out of hand. Rather, the performance comes together as an innovative, entertaining, colorful, emotional and eclectic menagerie of talented actors, an ingenious set, well-chosen musical accompaniment and even some battlefield choreography. Although the performance is rather long--running just shy of four hours--and the plot is often complicated and confusing for those not intimately familiar with the play's history, Richard III rarely looses its intensity, appeal and ambition...