It could be called "Hello, and Goodbye, Pig!" There is, in the end, something inherently frustrating about a movie that's at once as fine, ambitious and, at a crisp 93 minutes, as abbreviated as "Food, Inc".
After Capote, several commentators began to describe Hoffman as one of the finest, most ambitious actors of his generation.
Tiramisù, ice creams, sorbets and a profiterole-like dessert called bongo-bongo are fine; the more ambitious desserts, like pine nut tart ($8), do not come off.
Through the set, Mr. Young carried the all-or-nothing intensity of a shy person, maybe even a shy, romantic person, but all in all he's doing fine: grounded, smiley, ambitious.
The curator Maurice Berger makes some persuasive claims about the influence of fine art on ambitious television of the postwar era: the credits for the surrealist "Twilight Zone," for instance, borrowed their rotating spiral from Marcel Duchamp's "Anémic Cinéma".
There was the friendly hug he got from a member of Congress, who offered that his district's current lines were just fine, and the ambitious fellow lawmaker who sidled up to him at a meeting, saying that he had a great idea for a possible district.
Here's what I think are his finest and most ambitious pieces.
If this isn't Beryl Bainbridge's finest or most ambitious work, much of what's always been striking and irreducible about her still abides within it.
The mural won the artist instant approbation and was the first of a series of such cycles and decorative schemes, the finest and most ambitious of which are generally held to be those he painted from 1936 to 1938 for the Marquess of Anglesey's dining room, overlooking the Menai Strait and the mountains of Snowdonia at Plas Newydd in North Wales.
Among the finest of these ambitious works is the drybrush oil drawing on unprimed paper, "Omnia vanitas" of the late 1640s/early 1650s in which the artist deals with the existential theme of transience.
Among his original compositions, one of which pays tribute to Lenny Tristano and another, Billie Holiday, "Autumn Variations" is the most ambitious and finest: a turbulent semiclassical jazz suite that stands by itself.
