Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliant Cornell cross-country team outshined the Crimson harriers, 23-37, yesterday at Ithaca Golf Courses in Ithaca...
...wait, not minding the cold, apprehensively euphoric at the prospect of impending, but undefined confrontation. The forest has a silver lining: a brilliant full moon illuminates the treetops and jagged piles of gravel from the construction site...
...enter the movie's unpleasant milieu easily and remain captivated throughout. While the film is full of golden Parma landscapes, the dominant visual fixture is the moon: it is the film's metaphor for characters whose mysterious dark sides only gradually reveal themselves. In Bertolucci's brilliant climax, set at an open-air opera rehearsal, his artis tic conceits all converge. As the camera constantly shifts its point of view, we see that Luna 's events form a different drama-or opera-from each player's perspective. Only the moon, hovering above, can know...
Fate, working through coincidences, performs several kinds of malevolent interventions. In one brilliant scene. Jade's father, walking in Manhattan, spots David across the street and rushes after him in a rage; he is crushed to death in the traffic. Among other things, the book could be read as a grand parody of the idea that the course of true love never runs smooth. At last, David ends in jail, for breaking parole, if not for shattering all the lives around him. Jade vanishes into the oblivion of an unknowable domestic life with another man, a subsiding into reality...
...real show was inside, however, and what a show it was. Audience and TV viewers alike were treated to a full-scale display of all the elements that can make opera truly grand: a masterpiece of the repertory-Verdi's Otello-opulent staging, brilliant conducting by Met Music Director James Levine, and a cast of top singers giving a blazing performance...