Word: virtuoso
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...zebra-striped drum kit. With his mouth open, head cocked and eyes scrunched in an expression of mind-bending wonder, he sets up a martial beat taken from the fife-and-drum bands that have been playing in these hills since the Civil War, then dances around it with virtuoso rock and jazz accents. Luther, 27, his soft features framed by thick black curls, finger picks his Gibson hollow body and uses a bottleneck slide to make it skitter and howl. Garry Burnside locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams...
...other hand, consider an older Spaniard like Ignacio Zuloaga, long regarded as the discreditable essence of flashy, virtuoso academism. The picture he has in the show--a portrait of a sulky-looking, middle-aged dwarf holding a mirrored sphere the size of a soccer ball, in homage to that god of all Spanish realists, Velazquez--is a masterpiece of unsparing scrutiny and direct painting, and it brings you up with a jerk...
DIED. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 78, virtuoso flutist who helped restore the instrument to the elevated position it occupied during the 18th century; in Paris. His repertoire ranged from the Baroque giants to jazz and Asian rhythms...
...voyeuristic sense. The book itself is huge and heavy, with thick paper stock and stylish layout. Moreover, the photographs are finely printed and composed with an infallible eye for human misery: few of us could ever imagine the horrors that Nachtwey's subjects have seen, but he is a virtuoso at evoking pity. The line between a bad photographer and a good photographer of these horrors is drawn where the photographs stop making you feeling just sick and start making you feel both sick and sad. My stomach-knots and grief persisted long after seeing Inferno, and that...
...half-hour frame. A beacon of innovation and creativity the film is not. And yet, much like its revered progenitors, Gladiator works on such an impressive scale that it is able to overcome its dearth of originality. Ridley Scott has always enjoyed a somewhat undeserved reputation as a visual virtuoso (White Squall? GI Jane?), but this is one project in which his supposed visual prowess is on display full-force. Taking a page from the James Cameron playbook, Scott meticulously recreates the world of ancient Rome, capturing the most minute details from the bustling streets to the massive Coliseum...