Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This exemplar of high style began, unpromisingly enough, as an illiterate mason's apprentice from Padua, where he was born in 1508; he was named Andrea di Pietro della Gondola. At 34, he was still listed on the guild rolls as a "stonecutter." But by then the decisive moment in his career had come; in the late 1530s, while he was working on the construction of Villa Cricoli near Vicenza, its owner took him under his wing. Giangiorgio Trissino, a wealthy humanist with a special interest in architecture, renamed his protégé Palladio, after an Angel...
...Perry Mason. Every day you wonder just a little more how Hamilton Burger even won re-election as District Attorney. Perry, Della, Paul, Gertie, and Lt. Tragg are on every day to bring justice to another murderer. Channel...
...ANNICE INGRAM MASON...
...unity of the American family in times of crisis. Senator Ervin's tribute to Gail Magruder was more than a courtly Southern gentleman's acknowledgment of beauty; it was a signal that forgiveness was in the air. The Senate Select Committee hearings are not, after all, Perry Mason redivivus, complete with dueling attorneys, surprise witnesses and sudden breakdowns. They are, instead, a series of civics lessons, a priceless course in government. With their strong undertow of show business, they are also a drama reaching back to the ancient rites...
Only canny old James Mason and Joan Hackett, once again in a role beneath her gifts, suggest lives independent of their existence as counters on the Sondheim-Perkins board. Dyan Cannon does her standard funny, bitchy act. Herbert Ross, as he usually does, directs at an unmodulated and frenetic pace...