Chinese bloggers derided him then as "a master of directing totalitarian group calisthenics," whose "blockbusters create standards for pompous state ceremonies," and similar criticisms are now surfacing.
According to MOCA, "Marina plans to re-enact some her most famous performance art pieces as well as serve as a master of ceremonies, directing gala guests in a series of participatory activities as they experience the installations, décor and dinner".
A master of coercion, both direct and indirect, he defeated the Chechen forces who had humiliated the Red Army and brought order from chaos, all with enough of an air of sophistication to assuage the yearning for finer things in life, both spiritual and material.
In the years since, he has moved between the commercial and the nonprofit worlds — making documentaries, writing plays and movie scripts — with brief detours for a Spanish-language television job and a master of fine arts degree in directing from the California Institute of the Arts.
James's potent myth about the unlived life survives intact, but I longed to see it played by British actors, reared in a tradition of unarticulated passion, and directed by a master of theatrical economy.
As a movie, "Masked & Anonymous," directed by Larry Charles, a master of the sitcom domain making his big-screen debut, is an unholy, incoherent mess.
It's directed by Pierre Salvadori, a master of the modern French comedy (2006's Priceless was his last), whose work Baye had long admired.
The entertainment at first consisted of a series of amateur acts linked together by a master of ceremonies; its coarse humour was usually directed against the conventions of bourgeois society.
The next season, 2010-11, the Met will begin presenting a Wagner Ringg" cycle directed by Robert Lepage, a master of theatrical spectacle and technology who recently created the Cirque du Soleil extravaganza "KA" in Las Vegas.
Francis Veber, who wrote and directed "The Valet," is a master of the modern French farce.
