In the wake of the recent Caurier-Leiser version for Welsh National, which effectively fast-forwarded the action from the time of Peter the Great to the equally brutal era of Stalin, Stein's handsome, sweeping vision of this mighty work deserves to cement its place in the repertoire as securely as those of its much-loved siblings.
Newsday's Linda Winer rates the story and music more highly, and waxed enthusiastic about today's revival of the show highlighted by the signature hit "Tomorrow" -- "Lapine's handsome yet lovable vision finds the emotional core without losing the cartoon magic". .
Reassured by somnolent credit-rating agencies, which backed the bankers' vision of handsome returns at virtually no risk, investors piled in with no due diligence to speak of.
They conduct their lives in Furst's signature duotone palette, a cinematic noir vision of handsome men and women wearing trench coats, smoking Balkan Sobranie cigarettes, listening to Stephane Grapelli and Django Reinhardt and inhabiting nighttime streets in cities from Istanbul to occupied Paris, Furst's fictional home.
After Steven Spielberg's E.T. appeared in 1982, Ray commented that E.T. "would not have been possible without my script on The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies," Andrew Robinson pointed out in a most handsome volume, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema, with text by Robinson, photographs by Nemai Ghosh and drawings by Ray.
As very young boys, it's not like they were handsome, but they had visions from the start of where they wanted to go.
VOLKSWAGEN CONCEPT BLUESPORT VW's handsome midengine convertible was its vision of a more socially responsible sports car.
When Theseus, played by a bare-chested, handsome Ryan Kelly, appears in a vision, she slaps him silly.
Tells about Handsome Lake's conversion, and vision in which he was ordered to preach to his people to save them from corruption & degradation.
And I am granted a vision: a classically handsome young man in a properly draped toga, all alone in a lighted bullet elevator ascending to the gods -- or, more likely, to the pool deck, where the toga party is about to begin.
