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...most people in the dance world, Tharp is no expert on his choreography, but she knew what she needed to learn from him. "He understood about music," she says. "He understood about dramatic and social dancing. And he understood everything about the erotic, bless his heart. He was a craftsman, not someone who took a 19th century artistic pose. He trained generation after generation of dancers, each a development on earlier ones, and his own work developed and diversified. He was a good businessman - I like that - and I loved the flair of the man." Tharp visited Balanchine when...
Sears' new sparkle can best be seen in its dramatically restyled "stores of the future."No longer is the center of attention reserved for such hard goods as Craftsman tools, DieHard batteries and Kenmore appliances. Now the emphasis is on the color-coordinated, freshly fashioned displays of stylish clothes and jogging gear, modern furniture and gourmet cookware. While the likes of Bloomingdale's and Neiman-Marcus have long merchandised their wares with flair, the redesign and reorganization are a revolutionary departure for Sears. Says Joe Fragale, operating manager of the Oak Brook, Ill., store: "We had so many...
Subdued hope is the most ebullient of Robison's emotional promises, but her restrained wit and craftsman's ear for dialogue make An Amateur's Guide to the Night a quiet treat. It doen't light up new arenas of expression, but it does help establish her as a master of the minister and a portraitist...
Roth has never had an easy time behind his typewriter. He is a demanding craftsman who has chosen difficult material. "Intimacy and subjectivity are my subjects," he explains, though that is as far as he goes toward defining the boundary between himself and Nathan Zuckerman. Their Newarks are the same; both lived in the Weequahic section, which Roth describes as once having been a Jewish village of hard-working plumbers, salesmen and shopkeepers...
...Fire is as duplicitous as it is busy. It has been sneaking in this direction from the beginning, showing all government figures as almost comically dumb and decadent, all rebels as rather decent sorts. One wishes it would state its sympathies openly, and perhaps allow Price lo assert his craftsman's integrity and his disgust with everybody who wants lo turn his camera into a deadly weapon. Bui that assertion requires an ability lo make fine judgments and take a long view that no one, except the actors, has brought to the enterprise. Without a sufficient measure of authority...