Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James A. Davis, master of Winthrop House, has asked Dean Fox to study the statistics on unwanted pregnancies among undergraduates...
...Democratic Senators are in trouble back home partly because of their support for expensive federal programs, even though one of them is a Capitol institution who is a master at steering federal largesse to his constituents. Meanwhile, a small revolution may be about to occur in the House: a record number of women are running, and they may double their representation in Congress...
...decades, Jean-Luc Godard has been cinema's master of collage. His films assemble scraps of dust-jacket wisdom, revolutionary rhetoric, sexual aggression, the music and the language of the streets, images from books, TV, magazines and billboards, forming a mosaic that melds the graphic wit of a Braque guitar with the anarchic intensity of a kidnaper's ransom note. In Every Man for Himself, the first Godard film to be distributed in the U.S. since 1972, he has tried to make an accessible movie while still speaking in his steely, ironic voice. But Godard will...
...friend Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone, the privilege of completing Edwin Drood; he declines, but later writes a similar story of duality and the changing tales of good and evil; he calls it Miss or Mrs.? Other attempts are made by lesser authors-and next to the Master what author is not diminished? In the '20s, a silent movie is produced, and in 1935, Claude Rains stars in a film that seems to have been made in gothic twilight...
...Kate Perugini, Dickens' daughter: "In my father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer of juveniles, composes his own conclusion to Edwin Drood, including Antony Maitland's new illustrations, happily capturing the Master's locutions: "Curious, bland, yet deeply various gentleman ... he was very like a convert to a new faith, who walks in the ways of the Lord with such assiduity as to obliterate His footsteps entirely...