Word: adept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting with Sky. Born in West Virginia, Leigh studied art for twelve years in Munich under a succession of adept nature painters named Rauff, Gsis, Loeftz and Lindenschmidt. They taught him to make a detailed charcoal sketch on canvas and paint over it, starting with the sky ("If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day") and working toward the foreground, finishing each part separately. Such grandiose subjects as sunsets and stampedes, he learned, may take up to six months to finish. But for Leigh, the finished result, an almost photographic naturalism, is well worth...
...somewhat wilted plot manages to take on an unaccustomed bloom in Fritz Lang's direction and the acting of an adept cast. Director Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...
...Pentagonal Hockey League is a nice polite group of white-shoed teams from five Ivy schools. For the last couple of years, Pentagonal teams have ventured into the Arena to play B.U., B.C., and Northeastern, and although the latter teams may not be nearly so polite, they are equally adept; the games are always close, any team can win, and the Boston ones frequently...
Molinas, (left) six foot six Blue captain, rebounded well, led his team in its fast breaks, and scored 30 points, including 14 out of 14 free throws. His teammates were equally adept and the team shot 29 out of 34 free throws...
...spend exactly one night a week (Saturday) "enjoying relaxation." One woman who objected to this schedule was released from Liu's group with a letter of condemnation. No school or employer dared to take her on, and she was soon utterly destitute. By this time, Liu had become adept at turning out the kind of prop wash the party liked, but he wondered "how long it would be before the pressures on my own mind and the conflicts in my own heart and feelings would become in tolerable...