Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wherever they go," Harvard's fencing master says, "it will never leave them...
...comes down to this: we didn't come home from Princeton with enough Tiger pelt, so we'll have to settle for some Bulldog hide. It's going to be a dogfight out there, and I'd like to look at it as if it were the master teaching his dog. And, of course, we all know who's going to be learning the tricks. In a nutshell, we're so psyched. We're foaming at the mouth...
...Farokh was in control but unfortunately he hit too many tins," Kaye said. "He played like a master in the first game...
...from the beginning, been a story much stranger than fiction; if a novel had been so riddled with ironies, it would have been condemned for implausibility. In Salman Rushdie and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the world has two master plotters, celebrated controversialists both, with unusually lively imaginations, each of them now in his own embattled hideout while the War of the Words rages on. Yet even Jorge Luis Borges -- or Rushdie -- could scarcely have dreamed up a scene in which a Muhammadan cleric vows to kill Salman Rushdie for a book in which the Prophet condemns an apostate called Salman...
From 1944 to 1964, Jerome Robbins staged such hits as On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Then the dance master deserted Broadway for another passion, the ballet. Now he returns with an anthology of dazzling numbers from his most famous shows. His producers hope that Broadway's most expensive ticket will also be its hottest...