Word: miniaturist
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...been familiar with the places the Wulsins visited, the workshop was far, far away from the photographs’ referents. In addition, the slides have degraded in the last three-quarters of a century, and enlarging the slides has exaggerated the somewhat splotchy coloring that makes the otherwise impressive miniaturist painting seem careless.RELICS AND ORNAMENTSIt is little surprise, then, that the photographs which sustain and reward lengthy viewings are those that shift the focus away from naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows a large, round, ornamented, and polished metal mirror. Surrounded...
...author's customary beat is major league politics and journalism (The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be), and his usual tone is portentous. But in this canny change of pace, David Halberstam becomes a miniaturist, examining the claustrophobic world of competitive rowing...
...roles--Buck Swope, a porn star who dreams of becoming a stereo salesman, in Boogie Nights; Montel Gordon, a determined narcotics cop, in Traffic; the scene-stealing murderer, Mouse, in Devil in a Blue Dress; and Cockney explosives expert Basher Tarr in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve--are miniaturist masterpieces, full of detail and life. But as Paul Rusesabagina in the independent film Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle shows he can fill the screen as well as anyone else...
...advocated that government sponsor mentoring for troubled boys and provide parenting-skills classes to help build bridges between people, across generations and cultures. After the Hawke-Keating big-picture focus on the economy, Latham has zoomed in to individual, family and neighborhood needs: he's practically a miniaturist. The small-picture approach can be attractive at a time of national insecurity and unease about globalization. His promotion of reading to children to improve literacy seems to have appeal. And although he has been ridiculed for cultivating the good-father image for the cameras, it remains a salient feature...
...hundreds of years no one could puzzle out how to open it, but finally the pins that held it shut were discovered when the jewel was X-rayed. Inside was - not a lock of the Queen's hair as rumored but a portrait of the ruler herself by miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard. "It was stunning," says Derbyshire. "If you look closely you can see the veins on her forehead...