Mr. Redford has always been a magnificent underplayer, a master of small, clear gestures and soft-spoken intensity.
He stole the show in Magnolia – counteracting the brash Tom Cruise with intense sensitivity; was magnificent in The Master – balancing barrel loads of arrogance and charisma with intellectual vacancy on a razor-sharp knife's edge; and was at once brilliantly complex and tragically fragile in Capote".
The book, in Lévy's words, is intended in part to explain how a "magnificent philosopher and master of freethinking" could become a sad communist fellow traveller and a friend of Maoists - one of the reasons why the young Lévy founded the upstart New Philosophers movement when still in his early twenties.
Lorrain, the master of magnificent ruins, added scenes featuring prostitutes and their madams into his paintings, while Van Poelenburgh, painted a man pissing on Roman ruins under the sad gaze of an antique statue.
But here are wonders like Alfred E. Green's "Baby Face," an amazingly sordid pre-code shocker starring Barbara Stanwyck Joseph H. Lewiss's low-budget masterpiece of film noir, "Gun Crazy"; and John Ford's magnificent (but starless) "Wagon Master," streaming in a format significantly closer to their full glory.
There would be more victories as he and Ballesteros deepened their partnership, but by the time Olazábal won his first Masters, with magnificent iron play in 1994, his feet were already beginning to trouble him.
In the 19 years since Yves Abel started L'Opéra Français de New York to explore the French opera canon, he has become a master at wringing magnificent performances from the most modest materials.
Unfortunately, among the myriad devotees of Orson Welles, Wise has forever been cast as the man who, in the editing room, diminished, if not destroyed, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) while the master's back was turned.
The gallery's reputation is monumental: among other achievements, it was a prime mover in helping to assemble the magnificent Andrew Mellon and Henry Clay Frick collections of old masters in the United States.
This year the participants had master classes with the magnificent mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and the veteran tenor Anthony Laciura, among other artists.
The Bellagio, which opened in 1998, featured a magnificent collection of paintings by such masters as Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse.
