Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zorah has many descendants in the artist's mature work, and it is evident that in Morocco Matisse's basic idea of the artist-model relationship crystallized. He began to envision the studio as a kind of harem, where the static and endlessly compliant figure submitted again and again to the pasha- like gaze of her observer...
WYNTON MARSALIS: THE RESOLUTION OF ROMANCE (Columbia). How long can Wynton Marsalis keep getting better? His latest trip to the studio, this time accompanied by his father Ellis on piano, has produced what may be Wynton's best recording to date. His breathy lyricism on such standards as Where or When, The Very Thought of You, and I Cover the Waterfront will surprise those who dismiss the young man from New Orleans as a dazzling but cold technician...
...Stein wants to get even with the Walt Disney Co. So the movie director, who in the past decade has created a boutique industry of family films in the grand old Disney tradition, and the president of MCA's recreation division, who believes his idea for a movie- studio theme park was filched by Disney Chairman Michael Eisner a decade ago, were just the fellows to devise Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, ten miles up the road from omnipotent Walt Disney World...
...suggest a cross between Jeopardy! and Harvard's Core Curriculum. The line Core areas will serve as the subject areas, with occasional double Core questions earning double dollars. Key aspects of the show will include an auditorium too small to hold the studio audience, a paucity of questions in the "Lit and Arts C" and "Moral Reasoning" categories and a large number of bracketed questions held over to the next show. Odds...
...Louis Comfort Tiffany threw a party for himself to celebrate his 68th birthday. "When the savage searches for the gems from the earth or the pearls from the sea to decorate his person," Tiffany told several hundred guests at his lavish studio, "he becomes an artist in embryo." That idea informs $ nearly all Tiffany's prodigious output. As decorator, craftsman and glassmaker, he fretted over his place in history. Was he embryo or master? Artisan or artist...