Word: master
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million endowment is the gift of Elisabeth A. Hobbs and Emily H. Fisher-who received master's degrees in education from the GSE in 1961-and two other anonymous women donors...
...There were still parties [this year] almost immediately" after students arrived on campus, said Leigh G. Hafrey, co-master of Mather House. "Frankly, that kind of exuberance is fine and is to be expected...
...true to her master through the obscurity in which she first labored, through the acclaim that began in the 1960s, through the sometimes heated denunciation that ensued when she defended controversial church teachings on contraception. She was not some saintly relic but a willing servant of her God: "I am like a little pencil in [God's] hand. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has only to be allowed to be used...
...breakthrough came in 1995 with the near simultaneous releases of The Usual Suspects, which won him an Oscar for his performance as the wily master criminal Keyser Soze, and Seven, in which he had an unbilled turn as the gruesome serial killer who cuts off Gwyneth Paltrow's head. "Whether a character does good or bad things doesn't interest me," he insists. "It's whether there are ambiguities." Later this year he will appear as the Savannah, Ga., antiques dealer accused of murder in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...
Besides "Three Pairs of Shoes," the alleged fakes include one of the Dutch master's famous Sunflowers series-sold at auction in 1987 to a Japanese firm for $39.5 million-and two self-portraits, including one owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...