The elaborate art and architecture of the dish, which also includes an inky swish of chili paste along one edge of the plate and a verdant swish of cilantro and lime emulsion along another, boldly announce Ms. Ballesteros's desire to take Mexican cooking in the kind of nuanced directions that too few Mexican restaurants here do.
Taking Mexican cooking in the kind of nuanced directions that too few restaurants in New York do, Julieta Ballesteros, formerly of Mexicana Mama, lays chicken on a purée of squash blossoms, puts portobello mushroom atop it and crowns it all with goat cheese.
Lunch and dinner entrees, $15 to $42. * [Rating: One Star] Crema Taking Mexican cooking in the kind of nuanced directions that too few restaurants in New York do, Julieta Ballesteros, formerly of Mexicana Mama, lays chicken on a purée of squash blossoms, puts portobello mushroom atop it and crowns it all with goat cheese.
I knew this would be a challenge and was nervous about how to communicate nuanced direction with limited Arabic.
But in this well-done Theater for the New City production, solid performances and Stefanie Sertich's nuanced direction render all these people unexpectedly endearing.
It may be on hold for now but, if Fox, Time Warner and Shine/Endemol all merge, how long before that would subsume Sky Europe (presumably all taking sensitive nuanced direction from a Murdoch in New York)?
"Crazy as Hell," which opens today in New York City, Los Angeles and Atlanta, starts on a note of relative naturalism and under Mr. La Salle's nuanced direction gradually becomes more and more unhinged until it concludes in an altogether different genre.
Farhadi offers a schematic view of life in Iran a sort of bulletin-board sociology of educated folk who are relatively prosperous and relatively liberal, poor folk who cling to religious ways and bend them only in the face of desperate circumstances and his nuanced, naturalistic direction comes off as a costuming of stick figures.
Benko's nuanced performance, under the direction of Tea Alagic, is hilarious, inspired, and fabulous, though she could just as easily be playing a wild secretary from "Mad Men".
Peter Straughan's measured adaptation of Hilary Mantel's novels becomes more compelling with subsequent viewing, thanks to its nuanced performances and economical direction; layers of subtlety revealed in quiet asides or unnoticed glances.
By incorporating color and form, movement, melody, rhythm, imagination, notation and collage, Voigt has come up with a systematic and multi-perspective approach to depicting the world — what happens when the quotidian (for example, walking down the street) collides with the nuanced (birds chirping, the direction in which the wind is blowing, leaves rustling) on a single picture plane.
