* * * But if the Kennedy backstory reminds us irresistibly of tragedy and its gloomy theodicies, J.F.K. himself powerfully recalls a key character from epic — from Homer's Iliad, the grandest of epics and the source for so many tragic plots.
But this director's best work (particularly 'All the President's Men' and 'Klute,' both of which are powerfully recalled by 'Presumed Innocent') can make restraint a great virtue, turning it into a slow-burning fuse".
His way of showing how three or more unrelated activities may coexist on one stage powerfully recalls Chekhov, but Cunningham made it wholly American, an expression of the cultural pluralism that has marked this country for centuries.
She has stretch within stretch, pliancy forever, and a quality of basking, playful luxuriance that powerfully recalls the Makarova of the 1970s (just as Ms. Vishneva's bloom and sweetness elsewhere recall Patricia McBride).
Writing in the Guardian, teacher Lola Okolosie powerfully recalled her dismay at discovering that there was no framework in place to deal with a pupil experiencing physical abuse from her 13-year-old boyfriend.
But if the Kennedy backstory reminds us irresistibly of tragedy and its gloomy theodicies, J.F.K. himself powerfully recalls a key character from epic — from Homer's Iliad, the grandest of epics and the source for so many tragic plots.
One of the first things he did in this solo was a flickering arm gesture that powerfully recalled the solos Mr. Cunningham himself danced in the later part of his performing career: you saw tiny movements of the hand and lower arm while the upper arms swept in a strong arc.
Even more powerfully, it recalls scenes from the Bible.
Most remarkable, however, is how powerfully these rooms recall the days when working-class Italian families ruled the streets.
Amulya's oldest son still lives there, but he and his wife are childless and ever jealous of their motherless niece, Bakul, a girl whose own father can hardly bear to look at her, so powerfully does she recall his dead wife.
