In the role of the Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane, Brad Pitt — an admirable actor who is at once bigger and a little smaller than life (that's the secret to his charm, to the humanity of his swagger, and the reason for his splendid incarnation of Benjamin Button) — blossoms, doing something he has never done as well: speaking.
He was appalled, he wrote later, by "a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places… so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable".
Ms. Cattrall's celebrity is the principal reason for what may seem like a premature revival of Coward's 1930 comedy of connubial fisticuffs, which was staged to splendid advantage on Broadway only nine years ago.
Fraser "does a splendid job of explaining the reasons for Christian Science's rise and fall," Philip Zaleski wrote here in 1999.
Performance of the Week goes to their Australian bowler Timm van der Gugten, who plays his international cricket (if, perhaps, for no other reason than that splendid name) for the Netherlands.
I shall leave for another article the attractions of the Lake Como area, crisscrossed by ferries, and stay focused on reasons for staying put at Tremezzo, which includes a splendid 19th century, scarlet-colored billiards table.
All in all, a splendid advertisement for a worthy cause.
It was a splendid system for all within it.
It's a splendid setting for a funeral.
IT REALLY was a splendid week for Silvio Berlusconi.
