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...works against a deadline to talk his electronic pal out of launching a preventive strike against the U.S.S.R. But, as with the end of Blue Thunder, there is more of technique than of conviction in this work. It may be that Badham is an exemplary case: yet another talented craftsman caught up in Hollywood's current belief that the big bucks are in the big-bang school of moviemaking. In War Games the search for a big, effects-laden finish does not render the film entirely unwatchable. It just prevents it from becoming the video fantasy it might have...
...acquired the brokerage house of Dean Witter Reynolds 13 months ago, the jeers from Wall Street could be heard as far away as Sears' Chicago headquarters. Old-line stockbrokers sniffed that well-heeled clients would not want to invest their savings with the same company that sold Craftsman power tools and Kenmore automatic washers. The giant retailer figured differently, and last July it opened Sears Financial Network outlets in eight of its 829 U.S. department stores to test the concept of selling "stocks and socks...
...creamy sound unsurpassed in lushness and sheer beauty. The brasses gleam like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman on the order of a Stradivarius, played by a consummate virtuoso...
...things that make survival easier. What the author wants is a balance that might preserve the Inuit spirit. The threat to that spirit is illustrated by an American businessman who asks an Eskimo carver to mass-produce an ivory figurine. Naturally, the American wants a volume discount. The native craftsman has a more natural idea. Turning to an interpreter, he says: "Tell this silly qallunaaq that the more of them I make alike, the more expensive it will be, because it will be more boring to make them!" -ByR.Z. Sheppard...
Says Danish-born Craftsman Tage Frid, 67, of Foster, R.I.: "Furniture building should be very clear, very straightforward. A chair should say, 'Come and sit here,' and it should fit you in any position you want to sit." Thomas Moser, 47, a onetime college professor who runs a furniture workshop in a former Grange hall in New Gloucester, shuns ornament - the joints in his furniture are the only decorative elements. Moser works mostly in red-hued cherry. He says, "It's stable and tools well. You can sand it to a beautiful polish." Moser never uses stains...