Word: master
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...move along" has been a professional tenet with Lloyd Webber, who leaves as little to chance as possible. His whole life and career can be seen in terms of his desire to master a situation, then go beyond it. On the most basic level, there is his insistence on dominating everything related to his music. With a nose for business as keen as his faculty for churning out hits, Lloyd Webber keeps the reins of power tightly in his hand. No matter where he is, he is often on the phone to the staff at his London-based production company...
Talk about your comebacks. This character was a star from the moment he was hatched in 1937. Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could play an existential hero (Duck Amuck), a base canard (You Ought to Be in Pictures), a hard-breathing hoofer (Show Biz Bugs) or a World War II draft dodger (Draftee Daffy). Wily farceur, dynamite showman, he made 126 pictures before retiring in 1968. For years he could be seen only...
...master politician, Vellucci is one of the few who can stay on good terms with all camps in the City Council, where polarized political opinions often stymie productive compromise...
...there is no doubt in my mind that, had we been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. It seems to me that a political master of our fates should be asked, first of all, not about how he imagines the course of our foreign policy, but about his attitude towards Stendhal, Dickens, Dostoyevski...
...offshore invasion -- mostly from Asia -- has brought with it no dilution of quality. University of Wisconsin Dean John Wiley notes that foreigners who apply for master's and Ph.D. programs "are the top 1% of the cream of the crop." But the pressure from these foreign candidates comes when bright young Americans seem less interested in higher technical education. Says Charles Vest, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor: "That reflects the general tendency in U.S. society for doing things in the short...