Word: virtuosos
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...tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner" was not that of a neoexpressionist but of a virtuoso; his drawing lacks the tenacity of an Eakins, let alone a Cezanne, yet it was drawing of a high order, heartless sometimes, but rarely less than dazzling in its fluency; and there is nothing like it in American art today. Sargent was certainly no modernist, but the fiercely competitive atelier...
...copulating with a masked inseminator who had been eugenically selected at a "contact clinic." Fizzy, Moura's biologically tailored offspring, is the liveliest illustration of Theroux's future shock. He combines scientific genius with an arrogant and obnoxious mouth. He is also an example of postliterate man, a computer virtuoso who can barely write a simple message with a pencil. Yet Fizzy is young and, despite a hothouse upbringing, proves dramatically adaptable...
...model for Ba-Ba-Reeba! and for many other U.S. outposts is the Ballroom, New York City's best tapas tavern and one of the first in the country. The chef and co-owner, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, is a virtuoso of the meal-in- miniature. To the standard array of morsels, he adds innovations such as chicken in curry, headcheese in a satiny pimiento puree, slivers of crackling crisp roast pig and seviche of scallops. Rojas-Lombardi has his three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish...
...unusual (the only piano he played for recordings sounds like it's one-quarter harpsichord), as is his approach to these pieces. Gould's renditions--with generally slow tempos, accentuated inner voices, and understated pedalling--seem a deliberate attempt to fly in the face of the norms of "Romantic" virtuoso pianism...
TAKAYUKI MORI, 31, has a more cerebral approach to design. His Tokyo show was a presentation in his elegant shop, where the floor is covered in smooth white pebbles and a fountain bubbles up quietly as if from some deep Zen wellspring. Mannequins were hung with virtuoso variations of dresses and skirts cut from polyester satin and jersey, colored pale red, musky gold and worn white, in a pattern transferred directly from photos of rusted iron. "I'm neither anti-Western nor pro-Eastern," Mori explains. "I'm interested in making clothes that bring out the originality of the individual...