Word: master
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this narrative isn't the whole of the picture by any means. De Hooch was a master of spatial composition. In his pictures you are never entirely inside or wholly outside. His rooms aren't closed, artificially lit boxes but part of a continuity between the inner and outer worlds, revealing the truth of both under the benison of natural light. In this painting the rectangles of the brown room with its wide wallboards and alcove bed open backward into stages of increasing light. The window casts a bright lozenge of sun on the worn tiles of the floor beyond...
Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem (lower left) bid farewell to senior tutor Henriette L. Power, who announced her resignation this week. Power told Dunster students in a letter this week that she would leave the house at the end of the semester. In an interview, she cited her family as a reason for the move...
McMahon was born in Dayton, Ohio and raised in Lexington. He completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University before earning a master's degree and doctorate from...
...virtuoso of quotable quotes and absurd silliness, Ellis lives cocktail party chitchat. He's a master of persuasion and listeners become believers even though he says nothing. His language is littered with "you knows"--a question as rhetorical and self-serving as the motive behind many of his recent public appearances. In conversation, Ellis incessantly sells himself, his book and his "friends...
...Internet is a global reality that is both all-encompassing and hyperexclusive. It brings people together who might never have found one another. It's also anti-community at its zenith, encouraging neither conciliation, nor patience. Spurn what other people want--you are the master of your domain. You choose where you want to be. If that's a "Facts of Life" fan page at 3 a.m., no one can deny you quality time with Tootie...