Word: masterfully
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...your time. Forced to be expressive in a medium in which dialogue could only be written on intermittent frames, Buster Keaton, film pioneer and comedy legend, relied instead on visual complexity and sophistication: carefully wrought facial reactions, exquisitely timed double takes, graceful slapstick and outrageous acrobatics. He was a master of both subtlety and extravagance--he was called "Old Stoneface" for his constant deadpan which could somehowwhere the facade of a house falls over on him but doesn't touch him as he goes through a window-- that's just one example). Seven Chances is bestknown for the sequence...
Nicklaus, who was a drill master during the '89 football season and played the trombone, recalls his band years fondly...
...grave. Version Three working title: "Professor Houses." We'd publish FM Architectural Digest with luscious photography of the homes of Harvard's most esteemed faculty. They'd welcome us into their Victorian mansions or humble bungalows and give us the full tour from home-office, to library, to master bedroom. We'd wait for the "golden hour" around dinner time to shoot the grounds and the photos would be worthy of Better Homes and Gardens. But all 40 of Harvard's big wigs said no--"no way"-- except Harvey Mansfield who said yes and Henry Louis Gates Jr. who simply...
Heimert then went on to serve as master of Eliot House from 1968 to 1991. He was succeeded by the current masters Stephen A. Mitchell, professor of Scandanavian literature and folklore, and Kristin L. Forsgard, but maintained an office in the House and taught a House seminar on the witches of Salem...
...inspired great loyalty and spirit among the Eliot House community, and during his time there Eliot House and its inhabitants had a strong sense of place. That alone is not too shabby a legacy for any House master to leave behind," Mitchell wrote in an e-mail message...