Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The last months and days of Simon Bolivar, the brilliant and thwarted liberator of South America, are imaginatively reconstructed by the acknowledged master of magic realism. As the general flees from his progressive illness and ungrateful people, he trails, in his turbulent wake, a hyperactive tale of grandeur and disillusionment...
...Complete Caruso (RCA Victor). The master's voice: Enrico Caruso's matchless discography (1902-20), now released on 12 CDs. At home in everything from Puccini arias to George M. Cohan's Over There, Caruso continues to be revered, rightly, as the greatest Italian tenor who ever lived...
...watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like the Master Thespian on Saturday Night Live, he might be expected to snap out of his poignant lethargy and triumphantly shout, "Acting...
...protect them, guiding their technological development by directing investments in science, medicine, agriculture and the arts. But playing the Almighty, I discover, is complicated -- and dangerous. Skimp on medical research, and your SimEarthlings are pestered by plagues. Cut back in the philosophy department, and wars break out. Let the master race linger too long in the industrial age, and the planet is choked with pollution. If, on the other hand, you steer your beings adroitly toward the ages of information and nanotechnology (molecule building), they will spontaneously load themselves into tiny spacecraft, turn the earth into a wildlife preserve...
...LORD'S WORK Construction began on upper Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1892, but the Gothic structure's three elaborate stone towers remain unfinished. In 1980 master builders started to teach local youths the art of stone carving and hope to finish the job -- in about 60 years...