Word: mavens
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Flower Sense (Rizzoli) Fabric- and wallpaper-design maven Tricia Guild shares her expertise on color and pattern, taking a look at how the art of floral arrangement accentuates a home...
...GENE MAVEN Five years ago, Deon Venter was an expert in diseases, not sports. As chief pathologist for the Melbourne-based company Genetic Technologies, he focused on genetic links to breast cancer and epilepsy. But something happened to change all that...
...full implications that come with a long, closely fought, three- or two-person race - have never been taken out for a drive. "We haven't seen anything like this," says Tad Devine, who hammered out 13-B in 1988 with his counterpart from the Jackson campaign (party rules maven Harold Ickes, who now works for Clinton). "We have always theorized about it, but it will be tested for the first time. Both candidates can keep collecting delegates for some time...
...Ragone has produced a fond, generously illustrated biography of the tokusatsu (special effects) genius, who died in 1970. It is the first biography to appear in English. With help from Tsuburaya's family and co-workers, as well as stills supplied by his various studios, Ragone provides a monster maven's feast of detail about Japanese moviemaking in the innocent, pre-digital age. "His seemingly simple approach to special visual effects is in fact the result of a master craftsmanship like that seen in Japanese fine arts, a handmade approach," Ragone writes of Tsuburaya, "and a human touch that resonates...
...presentation hosted by DreamWorks ani-maven Jeffrey Katzenberg, Seinfeld related the movie's origins. He and his wife went to dinner with Steven Spielberg (another DreamWorks boss) and his wife. "I'm nervous," Seinfeld said, "because even though I'm Jerry Seinfeld, he's Steven Spielberg." When the chat rate slowed down, Seinfeld mentioned an idea - really, just a joke - for an animated film: a movie about bees called Bee Movie. A few months later, Seinfeld was on the DreamWorks campus, being shown how CGI films were made. And here he was, Seinfeld said, "four years later, because...