Word: masterwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharply in his movies on the rights of individuals that Czechoslovak film authorities once suspended his license to work. He fled to the U.S. "to be a free citizen" when Soviet tanks crushed the brief "Prague spring" liberalization in 1968; that was three years after he had produced his masterwork, The Shop on Main Street, a haunting drama about an elderly Jewish woman who is betrayed to the Nazis by a cowardly collaborator...
...little inkling of this astronomical revolution. Yet to understand phenomena of such cosmic proportions, scientists must rely on his theoretical masterwork: the general relativity theory. Unfolded in 1916 to an astonished and largely uncomprehending scientific community, it is Einstein's complex and subtle yet beautifully elegant mathematical explanation of nature's most pervasive?and paradoxically, its weakest?force: gravity...
...large part of her life tasting and testing south of the border to produce The Cuisines of Mexico in 1972. She spent five more years researching the 1978 followup, Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico (Harper & Row; 288 pages; $12.95). The result, for novice or aficionado, is a masterwork that sweeps the terrain from Chihuahua to Yucatán, from shrimps in pumpkinseed sauce to sugar-glazed flaky pastries. One could quite happily live on Diana's sopa de ajo y migas, which inadequately translates as garlic and bread-crumb soup...
Winterset is one of the few productions that can justly point to its set as a major attraction. Joe Mobilia's looming set is a masterwork, using the Loeb's rather spacious capacity to the fullest. The ominous bridgehead (all action takes place under a bridge or in a house next to the bridge) towers above and the main playing area is both cleverly designed and fully utilized. Chris Stone's lighting design is tremendous, as usual. This is the way the Loeb should be used, at least for sets...
...painting in question, Mystery of the 20th Century, is the one that Glazunov calls his masterwork. In Western eyes, the huge (10-ft. by 20-ft.) canvas seems to be little more than a pastiche, cast in gloomy black, blue and red tones. Mystery is made up of many of the century's famous figures-including Czar Nicholas II, Louis Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky, Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Franklin Roosevelt, Mao and Stalin, who is apparently dead, floating in a sea of blood. Says Glazunov: "It is a work of philosophical realism that reflects...