I ask at one point why Sorrentino's films are more acclaimed outside Italy, where people can't hope to pick up the nuances (there's a fair bit in this one about the specific disposition of the Neapolitan flâneur).
And so it was sad but not entirely surprising when word came on Sunday of the passing of Pattycake, the Bronx Zoo gorilla who had long reigned as one of the city's more acclaimed tourist attractions.
And as they became more acclaimed, so their star players become more coveted.
Everyone says there are even more acclaimed young arms in the minors.
In a recent study, Donald Hambrick and Matthew Hayward, professors of management, found that the more acclaimed a C.E.O.
They have persevered through the renaissance of cable drama, discreetly drawing bigger audiences and outlasting many more acclaimed shows.
For visual audacity and sheer directorial moxie, it may well surpass any of his more acclaimed films.
The staff seems perpetually harried; one night, the hostess couldn't find a waiting party and exclaimed, when the impatient group approached to check on the status of its table, "You aren't who I thought you were!" On another evening, at 7 30, the kitchen was out of the pappardelle and the lamb, two of the more acclaimed items on the menu.
Yet "Getting On," which is based on the acclaimed British original, and which is now in its final season on HBO, lingers in my mind as much as, if not more than, almost any other dark comedy, even in this era of exceptionally good options.
