Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pour: "Hop-Frog," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Raven" and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allen Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors...
Actor Ronald Reagan has long known about the value of Schwarzenneger's symbolic strength. As a master of political symbolism, he has seen that rhetoric, if used often enough and backed up with occassional action, can get the job done...
...police the "mother hen" of the Black Liberation Army, a radical sect that staged bank robberies in the New York area. In Havana, she told the Long Island newspaper Newsday that the Castro government supports her and her 13- year-old daughter Kakuya while Chesimard studies for a master's degree in social science...
...shows his subject antagonizing co-workers as she lurches from tantrum to euphoria and back again, but he praises her meticulous observations of animal life and her unceasing struggles with poachers and politics as she fights to save the mountain gorillas from extinction. Her Africa is not the ordered master-and-servant backdrop of Isak Dinesen's tales. Three French visitors make a wrong turn on a back road and get fatally detained by Congolese troops. Fossey angrily tells her family, "They were reportedly tortured . . . hung on racks, finally eaten. The Congo can't be covered by the press, like...
...moody Beatrice, Duffy proves a master of facial expression and vocal variations. But the very power of her voice almost drowns out the meaning of her words. And when her part requires her to cry, Duffy gives an amateurish rendition of hysterics. Yet she understands her character and exhibits this understanding in Beatrice's volatile dealings with her daughters...