Word: artisanal
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...students operated the Mill Creek Artisan's Revival in Yarvouth--a fair of craftsmen who sold hand-made items to the local community--this summer...
Putting together these parts, Mason has Kipling come out a little like a 19th century British Hemingway. Like Hemingway, Kipling prided himself on an almost tactile knowledge of his craft, as if he were more artisan than writer. Like Hemingway, he approached the world as a no-nonsense man of action, only to have it turn into a landscape of terrifying myths. Kipling's fundamental theme, like Hemingway's, was pain and its endurance...
...fear they will lose everything. 'All I want is a party that won't take away my car,' a cab driver in Porto told me. Most important, the people fear the Communists will grab their land. Thus it is scarcely surprising that in Rio Maior an artisan insisted that 'It's better to be a homosexual than a Communist.' " Until recently, the north regarded the military as heroes for triggering last year's revolution. Now an increasing number of the area's inhabitants mutter bitterly, as did a mechanic in Benedita, that...
...hold hun to his own standard is to tell the negative half of the story. Connell's style is a model of economy; it reveals the care of an artisan whose works should be collected. -PauI Gray
...face of mysteries like lasars. He is gently satirizing an America foolish enough to long for the good old days of the last century--the very times in which the seeds of its own most pressing problems were sown. And at the same time as Jim Rippe, an artisan in an age dominated by machines, waxes a trifle sentimental about the early nineteenth century, he makes fun of his own nostalgia by leavening his antiquarianism with cheerfully anachronistie Day-Glo colors and plastic. The final irony is that every piece in the show is made of material which is totally...