Word: miniaturist
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...wallows in the same mud-and-tears and reaches the same inevitable conclusion, i.e., war is a dirty, futile business. Adam has no heroes, only victims. The time is 1944; the place, principally occupied Hungary, as the mighty Wehrmacht comes apart at the tank sprockets. A panoramic miniaturist, Author Böll paints vignettes that are often sharp and sometimes affecting. A sergeant on a liquor foray for his C.O. finds himself on the shifting front lines, but clings to his suitcase full of Tokay until a shell mixes his blood with the wine. A captain with a hopelessly shattered...
Essentially a miniaturist, Reynolds was unable to sustain interest in Mozart's long and complicated Fantasy in F minor. The massive sonorities at the beginning and end were impressive but the more subdued middle section suffered from monotonous phrasing and lack of clarity...
Harp Music (Nicanor Zabaleta; Esoteric). Sixteenth century Spanish music of musical as well as archaic charm, and modern French and Spanish pieces, all composed originally for the harp. Zabaleta is a rarity in the flamboyant field of harpists, a miniaturist who specializes in neatness and detail. Recording: lifelike...
...Urgent Dispatches." The romance began one August day in 1786 when Painter John Trumbull introduced Jefferson to the British miniaturist Richard Cosway and his young and flirtatious wife. Jefferson was apparently struck by Maria at once, for he canceled all his engagements for the rest of the day. He even sent a messenger to the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld d'Anville. He was sorry, he said, but he could not make it for dinner. "Urgent dispatches" were keeping him at his desk...
...Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common men's use . . . and is for the service of noble persons, very meet in small volumes in private manner for them to have portraits and pictures of themselves, their peers and any other...