He's searching for a reaction from a customer: Robert Wheeler, chief executive of Airstream, who is paying $300,000 for one of the most elaborate masterpieces James' shop had ever produced a gleaming silver motorcycle-with-sidecar to commemorate Airstream's 75th anniversary.
SATURDAY Patricia's apartment was across the street from Flinders Street Station, an elaborate Edwardian masterpiece in brick red and golden yellow that serves as the hub of public transit in Melbourne.
"Briggflatts" alludes to another elaborate Northumbrian masterpiece, the illuminated manuscripts of the Lindisfarne Gospels, but it now looks like an utterly contemporary project: a geographical, even ecological mapping, tugging the poetic tradition away from familiar settings toward unsung regions.
That would be the elaborate 13th hole, a masterpiece from tee to green to waterfall.
"Incident On 57th Street" is the great old blues story of tragic lovers or a musical masterpiece with elaborate new character development.
But Proust elaborated on that cliche more than any other writer, he contends, and his elaboration produced a masterpiece that is more comic than tragic, more vibrant than sad.
Like many of Ray's protagonists, Bogart's violent, self-destructive screenwriter, Dixon Steele, was a projection of Ray's own troubled personality, a self-portrait that Ray further elaborated in his 1956 masterpiece, "Bigger Than Life," in the guise of a drug-addicted schoolteacher played by James Mason.
Is there anyone who hasn't enjoyed making an abstract drawing — an elaborate classroom doodle, a Spirograph masterpiece, a tic-tac-toe game?
A hundred and twenty-seven almost exclusively European and American renditions of human bodies, from very old to recent and from masterpieces to curios, elaborate the thesis that colored figurative sculpture has been unjustly bastardized ever since the Renaissance canonized a mistake made during its excited revival of antiquity.
Sure, you can spend obsessive hours thinking about how Boulez created the elaborate pitch structures in his 1955 masterpiece, Le Marteau Sans Maître.
