Word: masterfulness
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...Scorsese, surely the American cinema's most vigorous classicist, is also the unrivaled master of movie exposition. Nobody can get a movie going like him, and sustain it with camerabatics and an attention-deficit editing ethic. The problem with his films, if it is one, is that they often describe a degeneration based on repetition. His characters' tragic flaw is that their crimes are their obsessions; they become addicted to expressing the beast within themselves. This makes for explosive moments in an anti-dramatic trajectory, so his his films don't build, they simply accrue - and then collapse, like...
...Master Cracks the Whip How John Negroponte won control of the CIA, and what he plans next to consolidate rival agencies and his power
...people from different Houses go there.” “When other food locations would close, the Quincy Grille would be open,” said Mather House resident Teddy L. Styles ‘07. Even acting Quincy House co-master Lee Gehrke, who just moved into Quincy this September, has heard tell of the Grille’s glory. “We know that the Grille’s been a very important element in the life of the House,” he said. Quincy’s grille is not the only...
...Three D's of Fashion • The Master of Mood • Dressing like a Goddess • Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas • Signature Looks • Creating the Mirage...
...Albert Camus." One day the magazine's editor fired the art critic, pointed at Hughes and yelled, "You're the cartoonist. You ought to know something about art. Good. Well, now you're the f__ing art critic." Hughes, in fact, knew little, and the subject was difficult to master at a time when there were no art history programs and only a single Picasso in all of Australia. So after faking it for a while he lit out for Europe, wandering from church to museum. That experience, he writes, gave him a first-rate education but forever ruined...