Today, it is Shelley's longer, stranger, more aggressively philosophical poems — some of them flawed and incomplete — that seem to represent the core of his achievement.
But at the core of that achievement, which was much maligned at the time, was a willingness to compete, to concentrate, to take responsibility and above all a sense of commitment to Alf Ramsey and England.
Even the most conscientious critic has a hard time picking through the many impersonal projects — films like "Doctor Dolittle" with Rex Harrison (1967), or the 1980 remake of "The Jazz Singer" with Neil Diamond — to uncover the core of his achievement.
The big show at the Whitney is the first full-scale retrospective of Mr. Ruscha's drawings, the medium and methods that are in many ways at the core of his achievement.
The epiphany came in his mother's bedroom, a recently discovered fact that sheds new light on the first line of the trilogy that forms the core of his achievement in prose: "Je suis dans la chambre de ma mère".
Organized by Brian Wallis, this latest foray into Weegee's complex universe circles back with a new scrutinizing intensity to the core of his achievement: his frenetic, formative first decade as a full-time photographer.
That lies at the core of the achievement gap.
This simple template for success has been at the core of his achievements, catapulting Varano from one quaint, classic Italian restaurant in the North End to now controlling 800 highly coveted restaurant seats in and around the city.
Still, the cabin interiors may be closer to the core of Evans's achievement, because in essence he was always a still-life photographer, even when he was photographing street scenes or people.
Obviously the new guys have been looking at what the old guys did, but these homages amount to little more than tips of the cap, gestures of acknowledgment that remain stylistic and superficial and never penetrate to the core of the earlier achievement.
