Word: archer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work that characterize a good mechanic: "The material and the craftsman's thoughts change together in a progression of smooth, even changes until his mind is at rest at the exact instant the material is right." The good mechanic becomes our own down-home counterpart of the Zen archer...
...blatantness of Pirsig's borrowings, his Americanizing of Aristotle and the Zen archer will appear vulgar to some readers. To me the borrowings are signs of a vital writer, maybe a myth-maker. The "good mechanic" resonates in my own experience; he brings to mind a good friend, a mechanic and scientist...
...many a drafty northern castle was adorned with the glowing carpets for which Isfahan was renowned. Shah Abbus and The of Isfahan, at the Fogg until February 24, recreates the magic of the fabled Persian city with a rich and varied collection of beautiful objects from tomb covers to archer's rings...
...throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style throughout his long life, in the face of many of his contemporaries's adoption of a European manner. Muhammad Zaman, for example, based his Return from the Flight Into Egypt...
...sister-in-law, who seems to dwell in the middle of some lunatic serenity; Art Metrano as Vic's anxious brother-in-law Jay David Swooze ("Just a formal handshake will be just fine for me, thanks"); E.J. Peaker as the imperious Janelle; and Anne Archer as the fetching but deadening Drenna-all these are especially noteworthy out of a large and shrewdly chosen cast. Each nicely complements the excellences of a distinctive, gifted movie...