Word: maestro
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...This year, France can score from anywhere. Thierry Henry's finishing ability is now a match for his frightening speed. And in David Tr?z?guet?fondly known as Tr?z?goal?France boasts the highest scoring player in the Italian league. And running the whole show is the maestro, Zidane, fresh from his victory with Real Madrid in the final of the Champions League. One danger: opposing teams may resort to the hatchet to shred French rhythm, if not limbs. "It's becoming clear that this is the kind of physical, even rough treatment the French team is going to have to expect...
...Live is considered by some to be a “living legend,” a modern maestro who scratches and spits peerless poetry over his own beats. Though his virtuosic debut The Best Part was shelved indefinitely by record companies, All Of The Above may be his magnum opus. It is a consummate progression of the Native Tongues movement (led by De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest) that was eclipsed in the early ’90s by gangsta rap. The album oozes with the legacies of jazz, funk and soul. Like Common?...
...DELAY, 84, Juilliard violin teacher known for inspiring a lush, rich sound in her famous students, among them Itzhak Perlman, Midori and Sarah Chang; of cancer; in Upper Nyack, N.Y. Frequently consulted by conductors and prone to such endearments as "Sugarplum," DeLay defied the image of the icy European maestro with her motto, "Teach the student, not the subject...
...rare “Jar of Peaches” (1866), which depicts a jar of canned peaches and a few fresh peaches on a glossy marble surface. The painting exemplifies Monet’s obsession with surface, texture and reflection in an unusual arena for the landscape maestro. Of Monet’s two thousand catalogued works, only three percent are still lifes...
...superstars like Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira, Emmanuel Petit, Marcel Desailly and Fabien Barthez ply their trade. They also frequently check in on Italy's Serie A, to follow the progress of David Trezeguet, Lilian Thuram and Vincent Candela. Then there's Spain's Primera Liga, which includes maestro Zinedine Zidane, Claude Makelele and Philippe Christanval. Oh. And don't forget the German Bundesliga, home of Bixente Lizarazu and Youri Djorkaeff. Les Bleus, as the French national team is commonly known, are scattered across Europe's best leagues. Keeping the first-XI regulars company in foreign lands...