Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...built on only 10,000 acres, and plans to continue developing its land over the next 25 years with nearly $10 billion worth of houses and commercial and industrial complexes. When the expansion is completed, the ranch will have 400,000 residents and be the country's largest master-planned urban setting. Says an executive of one company that has been bidding for Irvine: "For the rest of the century, all we can see on those 80,000 debt-free acres is growth, growth, growth...
...Riviera as Thomas Cromwell. In a world populated almost exclusively by shifty, power-crazed and unreliable characters, Riviera's Cromwell outshifts them all. Here is a courtier who could have given Machiavelli lessons. His fingers heavy with rings, his mouth twitching contempt, Riviera is every inch the master of ruthless pragmatism, as uncomfortable with More's unswerving integrity as More is with the vicissitudes of court politics...
...fall of 1974, the Masters of Dunster House made "a big thing" out of the boycott, Elizabeth W. Vorenberg, House Co-Master said yesterday. They urged support of the boycott against Gallo and stopped spending the House funds under their control at Harvard Provision, Vorenberg added...
MIDDLE AGE is often the period when an artist re-evaluates past accomplishments and seeks new directions. The struggle to master the means of expression gives way to an examination of the ends to which those means are being used and the nagging feeling that time is beginning to run out while there is still much...
...THIS WAY of getting even impresses us as cynical, Malle certainly helps the decadence along. When the thief runs into his family priest during his getaway, one suspects he might repent. No need to, though, because the good curate turns out to be a master crook himself. The hypocrisy of it all sounds funny, but Malle's somber colors and slow pace stop the irony like a wad of lint in our throats. This should be a black humor giggle-fest, but nobody is laughing...