DUMB comedy -- as Rodney Dangerfield, one of its most eminent practitioners, might say -- gets no respect.
Hardly a week goes by without somebody, often one of its most eminent practitioners, disparaging the form.
(All ages) Here's a second collection of sophisticated (some might say peculiar) comic stories written and illustrated by such eminent practitioners of the art as Maurice Sendak, Richard McGuire, Barbara McClintock, Ian Falconer and Jules Feiffer.
Exhibitions of historic and contemporary craftsmanship were staged to draw them to the city, as well as training courses and master classes led by eminent practitioners.
In a genial and energetic reflection on the biographer's craft, one of its most eminent practitioners notes, "Biographies are understood to write themselves, self-generated (like methane clouds) by their dead subjects".
Considered one of his profession's most eminent practitioners, Mr. Leonard was at his death the television critic for New York magazine and a regular book critic for Harper's Magazine.
That behind-the-ear tracking shot is a stylistic hallmark of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian directors who are perhaps the most eminent practitioners of the new-realist aesthetic.
Mrs. Lambert came to New York and called first on Lewis Mumford, the historian and architecture critic, and then on Alfred Barr, who invited Johnson in; Johnson drew up a list of eminent practitioners for her to see, among them Gropius, I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Minoru Yamasaki, Mies van der Rohe, and Eero Saarinen.
He was literate in the physical science of his time, and acquainted with many of its most eminent practitioners.
