Having read "The Masterpiece Around the Corner," I must add another place to visit: Grounds for Sculpture, located in Hamilton, N.J.
I think I gave up on Pynchon's masterpiece around page 50 the first time I gave it a try, coming back months later to begin again, newly determined, only to fail only slightly further in.
'TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS COLLECTION: HOLIDAY' Pick up this four-film collection for Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 masterpiece, "Shop Around the Corner," with James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, and consider the three other films — Peter Godfrey's 1945 "Christmas in Connecticut"; the 1938 MGM adaptation of "A Christmas Carol and Roy Del Ruthth's 1947 "It Happened on Fifth Avenue" — as free bonuses.
When you're done you get a unique URL to share your masterpieces around the web.
The Pyramids, the Parthenon, the Mona Lisa and numerous heritage masterpieces around the world convey their message to and generate their impact on the observer via an intimate interaction with light.
There are just too many reasons to fall in love with Rome: the masterpieces around every corner, the scooter-driving Romans, the operatic piazzas, and the cocktail of provinciality and sophistication.
If you wanted to interest a youngster in the Good Book, you could do no better than "accidentally" leave a copy of this terrifically entertaining, R-rated masterpiece lying around the house.
In 2008, following the death of his mother, he released "808s & Heartbreak," a divisive, stripped-down masterpiece built around the strange, bluesy effect of singing against the grain of Auto-Tune.
So the next time you are out and about and you happen to look up, it should not be in fear of what else might come tumbling down upon your head, but in admiration at this great architectural masterpiece all around you, at what is arguably the most spectacular skyline on the planet.
No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.' In person, though large and somewhat ursine, he is milder-mannered than the vitriol of the column would suggest; as with many cerebral comedians and comic writers, he comes across as more serious and reserved than his work might lead to you expect.
Admire the masterpiece wrapped around the fork.
