Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philippe Halsman is recognized as a master portrait photographer. A native of Riga, Latvia. Halsman studied engineering in Germany, but gave it up for photography. He was a top fashion photographer in Paris before he came to the United States in 1940. He did his first Life magazine cover in 1942, and since then has done one hundred more as well as countless others for leading national magazines. This interview was held in Mr. Halsman's studio in New York...
Whatever his other phobias, Hughes did not suffer from claustrophobia. His bedroom was the smallest on the penthouse floor. It measured only 15 by 17 feet ("infinite riches in a little room"), considerably smaller than the usual "master" bedroom in a low-priced tract house. Even this meager lebensraum was further cramped by stacks of newspapers and magazines...
...enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure and baffling mysteries and restores them to intelligibility, has become a victim of his own delusions...
Another hoax, another spoof, some will say. More fictitious documents, more fun and private jokes at the expense of the ingenuous reader, the whole history of America being the province this time of my (or my master's) invention. Maybe so, but this, as I have been at some pains to show, is a pedestrian and unimaginative way of approaching the truth. A last word of reassurance then (if it is still needed): I exist! The Prescott family existed! These chronicles exist...
...thick, solitary splendor of the movie studio, Monroe Stahr weaves dreams. He watches images flicker by in the screening room, demands improvement. Amendments, modifications, excisions-all flow in the sharp, regular rhythm of a master musician keeping time by snapping his fingers. "The last scene was too gory-cut out one roll of the table," or, "Reshoot the whole scene." His taste is peerless, but it would have to be. The production chief of a major studio like MGM in the early '30s, Stahr holds absolute authority...