Word: masterminding
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...vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when he advised Vandiver from...
Within a week of the crime, Minister of the Interior Michel Poniatowski announced proudly at a press conference that "the catch of the [police] net is completed." With that, Police Commissioner Pierre Ottavioli disclosed that the mastermind of the crime was one Pierre de Varga, De Broglie's Hungarian-born partner in several questionable business enterprises. An accomplice, according to police, was another partner, Patrick Allenet de Ribemont. De Broglie had arranged a loan of $800,000 to both men to buy a Paris restaurant, La Ròtisserie de la Reine Pédauque, in which the prince...
...fantasies also seemed to carry over to Bowie's music. A mastermind in the studio, he produced instrumental tracks that were almost chilling in their precision. But if you weren't bothered by the calculated flavor of it all, his instrumentals were every bit as rewarding as his lyrics. Bowie took advantage of nearly all the techniques open to him, from guitar to strings, from harmonica to horn arrangements and used them with economy and deftness. What's more, he had ace guitarist Mick Ronson at his disposal. The result was textured and complex, but at the same time forceful...
...even more childlike than that of his master. Playing a young Sigi Holmes,* a detective suffering a near-terminal case of sibling rivalry because Big Brother Sherlock is always getting the good cases, he becomes a pawn in one of the latter's non-stop games of mastermind with Professor Moriarty. This one has something to do with a stolen state document on which the fate of empire trembles...
...next day was the meat and potatoes of the competition, approximately 16 miles of speed work, jumping and endurance. Dr. Dennis O'Keefe, mastermind of the stadium jumping course, explained some of the thought behind the design of a jumping course. "We're not out to get the riders but instead to present them with imposing inviting and jumpable obstacles," he said...