Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carver's trade is as tedious as his art is exquisite, it turns out, and this time-consuming aspect of his craft has opened a deep rift between the decoy man and his colleague the waterfowl painter. The man in the decoy dodge calls the man who employs canvas a "flat artist," putting a spin of denigration on the term. Flat art frequently commands a much higher price than the decorative decoy, which often takes much longer to produce. Therein lies the rub. The painter responds that if his work is any good, it is just as exacting-only...
...magic of the amusement park. Gary Sinick's photographs of stallions frozen in mid-prance, oversize rabbits, frogs and chickens reveal the wealth of detail and coloration that distinguished the finest carousel craftsmen of the U.S. and Europe. The form gave wide latitude to the imagination. English Carver C.J. Spooner, for example, commemorated British heroes of the Boer War with a series of centaurs. Among them: a figure that is half horse and half General Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts...
Eight of Tyler's 20 selections were first published in The New Yorker, but even that bastion of the shimmering sentence had to make room for the brusquer talents of Raymond Carver and his ilk. Carver describes scenes and moods so sparely he appears to be hoarding his words, as if expecting to put them to better use. From "Where I'm Calling From...
Four is a small banquet, but readers can choose for themselves how many stories they wish to return to, and the menu is certainly extensive. Established masters Updike, Carver, Wright Morris, and LeGuin are joined by rising talents like Laurie Colwin and Bobbie Ann Mason, as well as a host of freshman including, curiously, James Bond...
...Carver is also a little shy of star quality as Jesus in the musical Godspell, although his singing voice is sweet and true, his movement is crisp, and his line readings are intelligent. The rest of the ensemble has a more spontaneous energy, and one player, Neil Foster, almost explodes in the up-tempo We Beseech Thee. The slight plot and Stephen Schwartz's exuberant score, which in the 1971 premiere seemed purely a product of flower power, hold up surprisingly well: the youths who eventually join up with Jesus have been reconceived by Director Gregory Peterson as 1980s...