Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer this query, you must go beyond the slick, master-salesman style that characterizes the amiable former Notre Dame assistant coach and led one Boston columnist to crack that McLaughlin would have made a mint selling Arizona real estate...
Enter Toinette (Robin Leidner), his maid. As the true hero of Moliere's comedy, she manipulates and deceives her master into doing what is best for his daughter, Angelique (Macaire Henderson), and her lover, Cleante (Maury Leiter...
Whether all the Gutenbergs will find buyers is another matter. Like great master paintings they are thought to be a splendid investment, but usually only a very few institutions or individuals can afford one. "What can you do with the damn thing?" asked one irreverent book dealer. "These days the Arabs could buy it, but it would be easier to sell them a 10th century Koran than a 15th century Bible...
...family eventually wound up in California, where they lived in towns all up and down the southern coast. Warren had a music teacher who contrived to introduce the young student to Stravinsky (an album autographed by the master is Warren's "most prized possession"). But the influence of the great composer during Warren's subsequent visits to see him in his home above Sunset Boulevard was supplemented by a rough-and-tumble education at high school. Warren quit when he was 15, around the time his parents split up. He tried living with his father for a while...
...into the staircase of Wyke's mansion. Beyond that, however, there is only a smallish fireplace, some dull furniture and a few half-hearted pokes at interesting knick-knacks. To convey Wyke's obsession with sophisticated games, Garry gives us a few propped-up commercial board games such as "Master Mind," and the so-called "ancient Chinese blocking game" is nothing more than a small, beat-up chess...