Word: masterfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driving through the desert, and the one of Mark buzzing her car with his an plane, are not travel montages in that great Easy Rider tradition but careful and exhaustive explorations of a specific image common to the American romance movie. Set-ups shift continually without returning to a master shot, the camera defining angles that combine car, desert road, and sky in varying dynamic relationships. Antonioni refuses to construct conventional cutting patterns between driver-wind-shield-car-road, and each shot represents 'a separate approach. A fair amount of space between camera and car is maintained, rendering the scenes...
...Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred Gitelson, noting that the result of segregation was the same regardless of the cause, partly brushed aside the distinction between the two types in a decision last month. He gave the Los Angeles Board of Education until June 1 to come up with a master plan for the racial integration of the city's huge public school system. But many legal experts believe that Gitelson's ruling will be upheld. Lower courts, however, have tended to disagree with Wright and Gitelson; their decisions have held that de facto segregation, though obviously undesirable...
Tourist: Where is the Sacred White Crocodile? Little Boy: He come Friday 2 o'clock. Tourist: Then why is the tour on Wednesday? Boy: 'Cause, Master, that's when the big tour ship come. [Pause.] But if you give me shilling, maybe crocodile he come...
Died. Mark Rothko, 66, Russian-born master of Abstract Expressionism, whose monumental canvases, aglow with rectangles of floating color, were exquisite in their simplicity; by his own hand (slashed wrists); in his Manhattan studio. The son of an immigrant Russian pharmacist, Rothko developed his talent with virtually no formal training, progressing from realism through Surrealism to his own version of abstractionism. Line, subject, perspective-all were gone. "You have nothing here but content," he once said, in describing his style of running colors together to produce the impression of shimmering motion from an almost totally static form. Recognition was long...
...awhile. He agreed LoPresti gave me a brief, comprehensive lesson in goaltending, and I was set to go. But so was Cavanagh and he beat me easily on the first shot. I heard a roar from the stands, and looked around anxiously. I half-expected to see the Master rushing out on the ice and start shooting those pucks. But I settled down. When Joey came in on me the second time. I managed to smother the puck on the right side of the net. I was jubilant...