Word: master
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Television feeds this tendency to personalize great issues, and it permits everyone, not just Presidents, to play: Gorbachev came into America's living rooms for a chat last week, followed by twelve aspiring Presidents and then the old master, Reagan. The whole nation got a chance to size everyone up personally. Smiling Mike, exuding the commanding presence that Americans yearn for in their own leaders, treated NBC's Tom Brokaw like a sharp schoolboy. When the candidates' turn came on Tuesday, Brokaw made them look like schoolboys. There was an unnerving upshot of turning everyone into a TV personality: Gorbachev...
...first few notes of a familiar tune by the Spinners come up on the sound system, and then he's off, moonwalking across stage with his shades down and an arrow ready, singing, or seeming to sing, "Cupid, draw back your bow . . ." Lovedart is an agreeable fake, a master of the command nonperformance, an angel, yes, but also a duke- duke-duke of the lip-sync world...
After conducting a pilot program last year, the Institute received more than 500 student applications for 24 spots, and this year is training 21 actors, two directors, and one dramaturge, or literary manager. Although the school does not offer academic degrees, such as the Master of Fine Arts the Yale School of Drama awards, it does give graduates a certificate and an Equity card which makes them members of the actor's union...
With his piercing intelligence and emotional candor, Stephen Sondheim reigns as master of the Broadway musical theater...
...made, and information gleaned from the records could not be made public. Then, in 1986, just as the public furor was erupting over the Nazi past of former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who is now the President of Austria, a U.S. military archivist in Washington stumbled upon a master list of the names of all those for whom the U.N. possesses war- crime dossiers. As it turned out, Waldheim's name was on the list. Israel and American Jewish organizations accused the U.N. of a cover-up and began a campaign to open the archives to public inspection...