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Stanley Kubrick is America's finest film craftsman. The Shining may not be a masterpiece but it is the only film in months that deserves a second look. The horrors of the Torrances' battle against Overlook obscure Kubrick's careful hand the first time around. Only a second journey through the padded hallways and inviting doors of the mysterious Room 237 reveals the brilliance of a director whose razor-sharp art draws both from precise science and glassy-eyed witchcraft...
...national legend, waved small Yugoslav flags with awe in their eyes. At the edge of the crowd, a youth knelt on an open newspaper, clasped his hands and moved his lips in silent prayer. "He was somebody very close, like in my own family," said Nikola Margis, 68, a craftsman with a white mustache, who had waited for ten hours to pay his respects at the lying-in-state. "For 35 years we lived together, and we had only good things from...
...sold at moderate prices and backed up with reliable service. But beginning in the early 1970s, Sears went astray. Pinched on one side by shopping-mall specialty stores and on the other by discounters like K mart, Sears tried to move uptown. Suddenly, along with familiar bestsellers like Craftsman home tools, Sears emphasized stylish items like Musk Oil aftershave. A merchandiser from New York's Bloomingdale's was hired as fashion director to lend some tony ambience...
...review and a deadline. No one can rise to such occasional pieces better than Author V.S. Pritchett. It does not matter whether the subject at hand is a biography or a novel, a collection of short stories or of essays. Pritchett brings to them all the eye of a craftsman (he has written in these forms himself) and the .sympathy of an incurable reader. He is generous, to a virtue...
Black at Yale is an extremely powerful film made by a skilled craftsman. Every person filmed is articulate in his own way; there is little wasted footage. Black at Yale deals with issues which are as important today as in 1973. Blacks may want to acknowledge their existence and others simply may not know about them. Black at Yale forces us to accept the responsibility of educating ourselves...