Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observed his 65th birthday on his rambling estate in Los Angeles, the far-from-retiring Piatigorsky gave one of his inimitable offstage performances in a four-hour talk with TIME'S Los Angeles bureau chief, Marshall Berges. As these excerpts show, he is as much of a verbal virtuoso as ever...
...since Indjic possesses a complete, effortless, even dazzling virtuoso tecnique, he carries an added responsibility to direct those hard-won skills toward musical goals. Virtuosity alone carried Indjic to intermission. After that, like the car without Platformate...
Harvard played its heart out and Bill Diercks gave a virtuoso performance in the goal, but the Beanpot will remain in the Back Bay for a third straight year. Boston University scored a goal in each of the first two periods then settled matters midway through the third. The finalists for the Boston championship traded goals late in the period to bring the tight, defensive sruggle to a 4-1 conclusion...
Little wonder. By his own testimony, Aunay was a virtuoso in crime, equally gifted as a smuggler, counterfeiter, currency manipulator, drug runner and confidence man. He was once the Riviera's major supplier of tax-free cigarettes, which he brought in from Tangier aboard his chartered yacht. He bootlegged gold coins into Algeria by stuffing them into the innards of frozen chickens, cleaned out the numbered Geneva bank account of a wealthy Casablanca doctor by posing convincingly as his brother. Posing on another occasion as a heroin pusher, he conned two U.S. Narcotics Bureau agents into laying a trap...
...pretentious art movie. It should be read passively, with a relaxed eye toward its techniques, composition, shifts in style. And there should be frequent trips to the popcorn machine. A cheerful open-mindedness is essential because, for all its gothic appurtenances, the novel is a free-swinging romp, a virtuoso performance by an urbane writer who exuberantly deploys a variety of literary tricks-and then plays tricks on the tricks...