Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-war years Laval was variously a Socialist, Communist (for a few days), and numerous shades of rightist. Running this gamut he became a past master of French political intrigue, served as Foreign Minister and in other posts with several Cabinets. He also began to make big money as a corporation lawyer and super-fixer. Said he: "I don't like to work amongst files and documents. Give me the human element...
Sandwiched in between its usual weekly vaudeville show, RKO has some really first class entertainement this week. Count Basie, his band, and Maxine Sullivan, the girl whose Scotch has real flavor, are currently playing and singing there. Basie is such a genuine master of his mode of expression, he even makes the vaudeville seem fairly unobtrusive. In fact there are four couples of jitterbugs that do not once make you want to tear your hair, and who actually seem to belong in the show, because the Count plays...
Zutty Singleton and round-faced "Kansas." ace Negro drummers; Trombonists Benny Morton and Jay C. Higginbotham; bright-eyed "Hot Lips" Page and tiny Max Kaminsky; Bassist Billy Taylor; James P. Johnson, veteran Negro hot pianist. Twelve in all took turns. Unceremonious master of ceremonies was assertive, sharp-jawed Eddie Condon, who did what leading was done while he strummed his guitar...
Most notable of last week's surrealist shows was that of 51-year-old, white-haired German-born Max Ernst, who joined the ism 18 years ago, and has since become its master technician and high priest. Surrealist Ernst depicted a rock-candy fairyland peopled with crawling monsters and dismembered nudes in feathery fur coats...
...Chilean-born Matta Echaurren, a specialist in vaguely visceral abstractions, and Leon Kelly, a U.S.-born newcomer, who had been painting odd dreams in Paris and Philadelphia for years, but had waited a long time to show them in broad daylight. Drawn with the care of an Italian Renaissance master, Kelly's tenuous vistas had a quietly horrifying aspect...