Aided by the dramatist John Weidman and a dream ensemble, Ms. Stroman has created the unthinkable: a sexy, polished work that restores the pleasure principle to the American musical.
It is an occasion because Ms. Celmins's slow, perfectionist approach to printmaking has given her work a polished artistry that is a pleasure to behold, from the infinite pains she takes in drawing and technique to the exacting placement of the image on its surrounding sheet of paper.
Her imagery is restricted to a very few motifs: a stretch of choppy, brooding gray sea, a patch of starry night sky, a layer of rough desert floor and, lately, a spider's web -- but her slow, perfectionist approach to printmaking has given her work a polished artistry that is a pleasure to behold.
The audience gets to experience both the excitement of watching new performers step up to a mic for the first time and the pleasure of watching polished storytelling from our featured performers.
The new Grill feels darker and more polished: polished wood, polished silver, polished people.
Aided by the dramatist John Weidman and a dream ensemble, Ms. Stroman has created the unthinkable: a sexy, polished new work that restores the pleasure principle to the American musical.
In any case, such a blind test would have deprived the listener of the visual pleasure of watching this polished and passionate ensemble dig into Bruckner's music with a palpable thirst for adventure.
The latter are polished but still immediate in their pleasures: arancini, deep-fried orbs of risotto shot through with lemon zest; a tentacle of octopus sprawling over sweet-and-sour eggplant caponata; and, best of all, tender meatballs rich with the dark meat of chicken legs and black truffle carpaccio, petals of summer truffles stored in olive oil.
Through revealing graphics and polished prose, Aluminum Dreams delivers the retro pleasures of artifacts now gone by, but then with the enticement well in hand shows how oligopolies, war, and global exploitation follow on.
The film, just about an hour long and directed by the French animation team of Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol, is also a refreshing reminder, at a time of large-scale, highly polished cinematic spectacle, of the essential, elemental sources of movie-watching pleasure.
Mr. Nappa's Luminous, from Seneca Lake riesling, is graceful, polished, mouth-watering and off-dry, awash in the juicy pleasures of young Italian white peaches.
