Word: masterful
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Somebody should give these cafeteria workers a break. Last year, a house master questioned their ability to do basic math. And now an assistant dean is accusing them of racial insensitivity, a charge that is unfair and insulting...
Pleasantly handsome, piercingly intelligent, he was a master manipulator, a silver-tongued charmer who lured women to their deaths, confounded police pursuers and clogged the court system for nearly a decade. Last week, when Ted Bundy was finally strapped into Florida's electric chair and jolted with 2,000 volts of electricity, he paid with his life for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of Kimberly Leach, a twelve-year-old Lake City girl. But if his last-minute confessions prove to be true, the former law student may have killed as many as 50 young women in Utah, Washington, Idaho...
GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...
...Europe in the 1920s and '30s. Like his fellow Catalan Joan Miro, Dali was deep-dyed with images of place, among them the contorted rocks and flat beaches of the coast near the town of Figueras, where he grew up, and the flowing, bizarre buildings of Barcelona's master of art nouveau, Antonio Gaudi...
...raise funds for Oxfam America, an organization which devotes its efforts to disaster relief and to raising America's awareness of the homeless and hunger problems, tonight's show will highlight the talents of the Harvard Jazz Band, the Veritones and the Radcliffe Pitches. Jacquet will serve as the master of ceremonies in addition to giving a performance...