Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arbus's portraits of human oddities bear little resemblance to Alston Purvis' color details of plain doorways and windows other than the similar oblong shape of their frames. As the catalogue to the exhibit states, "Each one saw a slightly different side to the man, and Evans was a master at revealing different qualities to different people." The key to the success of these two shows lies in their inescapably intertwined relationship. The juxtaposition of Evans' work with these eight contemporary photographers gives the viewer a base from which to begin evaluating their work and, at the same time, stimulates...
Kaye-Martin's portrayal of the master of the house was not masterful, but good--he had the job of portraying the banality of evil in a high-faluting style, but overdid the banality a bit. He rants and demands and insults with all the consummate evil of Bella Lugosi and Martin Bormann fused; Kaye-Martin overplays his role just so much, just so much that despite his overkill in the sexist-megalomaniac-asshole department, the crowd still takes his character seriously, according his work with all of the hisses and spittoons given the villain in any old time movie...
...agencies, made and lost several pre-Depression fortunes by renting Fords and trading in local real estate. Young Lido decided he wanted to enter the auto business, preferably with Ford. He got an engineering degree at nearby Lehigh University, signed on with Ford as a trainee, earned a master's in engineering at Princeton and then surprised Ford recruiters by rejecting a quiet career in automatic transmissions for the tough world of sales...
Today Conrad has replaced Victor Hugo. A similar survey of contemporary writers would turn up many of the master's titles: An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and his greatest story, Heart of Darkness. His ominous Slavic intensity and his understated English produced a prose style that generations have found intoxicating. Countless youths acquired their first sense of literary power in such passages as "When an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones...
...Boston. So the Charles Playhouse's current production of The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter is particularly welcome, both as a sure-fire cure for a case of the mid-summer blues and as a tribute to the grand master of American song...