Word: spectacularly
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Bates' performance is simply spectacular. She can accelerate from simpering girlishness to looming monstrosity with head-spinning -- possibly Oscar- winning -- speed. Caan partners her with edgy smarts, and their deadly game does something more than pit temporary weakness against sociopathic passion. It also places ironic literary intelligence in conflict with the whacked-out innocence of fandom, and has a smart subtext of class warfare about it too. The actors are supported by the best kind of writerly craft and directorial technique, the kind that refuses to call attention to itself, never gets caught straining for scares or laughs. Popular moviemaking...
...resurgence of regional wines has been spectacular. In New York acreage planted with vinifera grapes -- meaning the classical European varietals -- has vaulted from 349 to 2,135 since 1980. Much of that growth has taken place in virgin territory, the North Fork of Long Island, which is blessed with late frosts and mild winters. Chardonnays and Merlots from such vineyards as Hargrave, Palmer and Bedell Cellars have stunned French vintners with their style and breeding. So have Pinot Noirs from Adelsheim, Eyrie and Knudsen- Erath of Oregon -- to the point that one major Burgundy producer, Maison Joseph Drouhin, has begun...
That afternoon Thatcher gave one more bravura performance -- perhaps her last -- in rallying the numbed Tories against a motion of no confidence proposed by Labour leader Neil Kinnock, who had felt obliged to respond to the spectacular disarray in the Conservative camp. In an emotion-charged atmosphere, the Prime Minister lit into Kinnock with such freewheeling enthusiasm that she brought Tory M.P.s to their feet cheering; others had tears in their eyes...
...their formative years, the movies took over the manner of Rostand's 19th ; century kind of theater, which was melodramatic in construction and spectacular in style, and actually improved on its substance, since film could realistically show splendors that the stage could only suggest. This Cyrano, abustle with action, aflame with rhetoric and spiced with humorous contempt for pompous and hypocritical swells, reminds us of a lost movie genre that, paradoxically, the original Cyrano helped inspire...
...Tell the story! Tell the story!" worshipers cry out as the Rev. Cecil L. Murray preaches beneath the spectacular murals and stained glass of Los Angeles' First African Methodist Episcopal Church. The exclamations from the standing-room-only congregation of 2,000 come with each oratorical high note. It is a hymn of health, bespeaking the prosperity of the city's oldest (1872) black congregation, where every service is a vibrant demonstration of fervor and passion...