Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...natural to wonder how Ma stacks up next to his most celebrated predecessors, Pablo Casals and Mstislav Rostropovich (both of whose complete sets are currently available on EMI). Casals' classic performances, originally recorded between 1936 and 1939, have a sober grandeur that continues to seize and hold the ear six decades later; the Rostropovich set, recorded in 1991, is a larger-than-life exercise in musical oratory that bears the same relationship to "normal" cello playing that one of Chuck Close's jumbo portraits does to a black-and-white snapshot. Ma's strong, sensitive playing falls somewhere between these...
...events of normal cinematic romance, and Cameron's script presents the lead actors with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall, the film is a pyrrhic victory for Cameron. Jeremy J. Ross
...expect. That's not to say he's good. He's not even acting. He's the same old Tarantino we saw in Four Rooms, From Dusk Til Dawn, and (for the less fortunate among us) Destiny Turns on the Radio: a swaggering geek with delusions of tough-guy grandeur...
...Then there is the grandeur," said Toni Morrison. Sure, the sentence is just one of many from Chapter One of Morrison's new novel Paradise, read by the author to an audience of several hundred in Faneuil Hall last Wednesday night. This particular phrase is unique, though, because through it the novelist perfectly encapsulated the listener's experience of her own reading...
...anything, the term "grandeur" alone cannot accommodate Morrison, whose magisterial presence in the hall was almost elemental, permeating and reconstituting every particle of the air from the moment she entered the room...