Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teaching fellow in economics plans to bicycle 135 miles next Saturday to raise money for cancer research in memory of the late David Aloian, master of Quincy House from...
...think it's a nice tribute and it's a very worthy cause," said Dean Michael Shinagel, who has served as master of Quincy House since Aloian resigned because of his illness...
...years ago, wanting "to make a difference," she became an organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a community-action effort formed by master social organizer Saul Alinsky. A tough, tenacious workaholic, the nun has gained a sharper insight into the colonia dweller's plight from her own roots: her Syrian grandparents encountered discrimination in rural Louisiana at the turn of the century...
...Seltzer is not able to maintain a crucial balance: the one that his script intends between his two stars. Field is, as always, coolly expert, but with as much mystery about her as a bottle of Mop & Glo. Hanks, on the other hand, is our reigning master of desperate expediency. His amuck parody of Gene Kelly's Singin' in the Rain number goes into realms beyond performance...
...Another Woman is the work of the mature Allen, who has aspired to Bergmanesque seriousness and, after Interiors and September, has finally achieved it. His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit. Not that there are laugh lines in Another Woman. But the subtlety of its structure and the tender irony with which it contemplates an emotionally guarded woman being drawn into confrontation with her past demonstrate lucidity and compassion of an order virtually unknown in American movies...