Word: skilling
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...dandy, Carolus-Duran focused his method on a near monomaniac attention to direct tonal painting, almost the opposite of color-based Impressionism. "Velazquez, Velazquez, Velazquez," he intoned, "ceaselessly study Velazquez." And from that study, Sargent got three of the major traits of his style. The first was a consummate skill in rendering objects and people bathed in space and low light. The second was its apparent straightforwardness--its ability to make a gesture count, to "knock in" the folds of a black dress or the petals of a white rose with the utmost economy. And the third was a sense...
That combination of skill, reputation, experience and unselfishness resulted in a single-season statistical total of near-ridiculous proportions. Mleczko returned from Nagano already holding the career scoring record for Harvard women's hockey players with 143 points in three seasons and, 109 (and counting) later, she has shattered the school single-season and career scoring records previously held by Athletic Director Billy Cleary '56 and Scott Fusco '86 of the Harvard men's hockey team...
...certainly will shock quite a few to learn that UNH attempted a massive rewrite, holding a late-game lead. In a true Hollywood ending, that only forced Harvard to show the heart of a champion as well as the skill...
...successful rookie season confirmed and enhanced the DiMaggio mystique. The next year, a radio broadcaster called him "the Yankee Clipper," a tribute to the way he sailed so majestically while pursuing fly balls across the green expanses of center field. His batting skill won him the sobriquet "Joltin' Joe." Meanwhile, the young man from Fisherman's Wharf was acquiring a Manhattan polish. He took up tailored suits and the high life at Toots Shor's nightclub, where the habitues treated him like a god who had inexplicably deigned to join their mortal company. He dated beautiful women, including actress Dorothy...
Indeed, it sometimes seems that there is not a bold or original movie that comes out today that deals with a theme Kubrick didn't touch first--and with far greater skill...