Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member of the 1928 British Olympic boxing team, at 19, "hoofed out" of school in Sydney, Australia, he was sailing the South Sea islands on a "mud ticket" as master of a 20-ton yawl. By the time he was 21, he had made and lost a goldstrike fortune...
...MASTER KUNG - Carl Crow - Harper...
Reynolds shows Lady Cecil Rice, the work painted in 1762, at a time when he was near the peak of his skill. It was only a month before that he had turned out his master portrait, "his perfect Nelly O'Brien." But Lady Rice resembles a very different person, who by the turn and tilt of her head, her sidewise and dreamy look, is distinguished and gentle. Reynolds' subdued colors, the faint blues for her gown, and the gray-greens for the trees and sky, suit her perfectly...
Leonardo da Vinci, who was so variously ambitious that he wanted to master birds' accomplishments as well as man's, declared in 1505 that no man would ever get his feet far off the ground until he had thorough knowledge of air and its currents. The invention of engines provided aviation with a shortcut, proved Leonardo partly wrong. But at the same time man did study the air, developed four types of motorless flying: gliding (coasting downward on still air); slope soaring (on rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow...
...doubtful if "Un Carnet de Bal" deserved the Venice award as the greatest picture of 1937. It is far from great; although they may strike American audiences as novel, the trick plot and twisted cynicism are old stuff on the European screen. But Julien Duvivier, master of French directors--he has made better films than this--has given "Un Carnet" the touch of the artist, which combines with competent acting and force photography to make the picture thoroughly worthwhile...