Bel Mondo, more modern and more Milanese in style, serves the best homemade pasta in town, a barbecued duck with balsamic vinegar and superbly chosen wines.

Viewers who will marvel at the extraordinary achievements of Mr. Beatty's superbly chosen technicians - at Richard Sylbert's production design, Vittorio Storaro's glorious cinematography, Milena Canonero's gorgeous and witty costumes - may find the authentic comic-strip plot rather tedious.

Assessing the first volume of the Gompers papers, The New York Times Book Review wrote in 1986, "It is a carefully chosen and superbly edited selection of the letters, public statements and writings of Gompers and his associates and deepens our understanding of Samuel Gompers's formative years."

Cuba Everyone associated with "Buena Vista Social Club" put out a follow-up album last year, proving again that the club's members were superbly chosen.

Now Mr. Feinstein is back at the Algonquin for an extended engagement with a superbly chosen new program that he unveiled on Monday evening.

The fairy-tale theme adds flavour (as if any was needed) to the chocolate and pastries, and the dozens of teas on offer are superbly chosen.

But it was a superbly chosen sample.

The actors' voices are all superbly chosen.

Whatever he was saying Bibulus could not hear, but he knew the words were witty, funny, charming, likable, irresistible, fascinating, interesting, superbly chosen, spellbinding.

For one thing, the set list is superbly chosen.