Word: virtuosos
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...more wounded and vulnerable persona, Berry first created a stir as the plain, plump, unfairly named Lolita in Look At Me, who tries desperately to win affection in a world dominated by a famous, self-obsessed father. She followed up with another impressive portrayal as the teenage double-bass virtuoso and aspiring jazz musician Hannah, whose sweet struggles with sexist bandmates, a stiflingly affectionate Jewish family and her own ample waistline in 1960s Paris provided the heart and laughter of the comedy The First Time I Turned 20. In her new release, a Franco-Algerian tale of confused identity...
...film fall away as the camera focuses on Murrow’s lined face, sternly lecturing us along with his television audience. There is no one else in the frame, no showy camera moves, no soundtrack—nothing to distract us from Strathairn’s understated virtuoso performance and the blunt, sobering words of the script, which Clooney co-wrote...
...ROKR, a phone that runs Apple's iTunes software and can hold around 100 songs. "We're working on some stuff," Jobs says, with his best, most irritating Cheshire-cat smile. "We're working on some stuff. We'll see." He looks at his watch--his lunch date, cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma, is waiting outside...
...plot points: a broken engagement, a mix-up at a public concert, a Christmas shopping trip, and a stifled bequest. But by the time Smith's story is over it is clear that On Beauty is not just an homage but a work of real originality. Smith has a virtuoso talent for capturing dialect, which makes her dialogue almost audible. Belsey's son Levi, a mixed-race child of privilege who takes a weekend job hustling knockoff handbags with Haitian immigrants on the streets of Boston, speaks perfect faux Brooklyn: "This ain't like workin' the counter...
Watercolor is tricky stuff, an amateur's but really a virtuoso's medium. It is the most light-filled of all ways of painting, but its luminosity depends on the white of the paper shining through thin washes of pigment. One has to work from light to dark, not (as with oils) from dark to light. It is hospitable to accident (Homer's seas, skies and Adirondack hills are full of chance blots and free mergings of color) but disaster-prone as well. One slip, and the veil of atmosphere turns into a mud puddle, a garish swamp. The stuff...