Word: craftsman
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STEVE'S AMERICA is one of iceboxes and small shacks, and Steve is a throwback to the days of direct producer-consumer relations. He is a craftsman; for Steve, clam digging is an art, clam selling is a living...
...blowing, candlemaking, Chinese traditional painting, silk screening, crafting of handmade sterling silver jewelry and making of Dutch eggshell ornaments. Booths which will offer the added excitement of providing audience participation include Ukrainian egg decorating where children and adults can decorate hard boiled eggs under the direction of a skilled craftsman, chess tournaments, Japanese origami and Polish paper cutting...
...house itself is strictest Wyeth: gabled white clapboard, severe and trim and sagging a little off plumb; country-craftsman geometry perched on a flat tongue of land at the sea's edge in Cushing, Me. It looks thrifty, and was; its owner bought it for $50 and trucked it to the site. Inside, the illusion of having entered one of the man's pictures multiplies. The ceilings are low, the furniture old and spartan, the rooms small, white and uncluttered. A lot of distinct air surrounds each object. Through the front window, one sees a lawn with...
...thing--Bergman's The Passion of Anna. Ingmar Bergman is one of Sontag's very favorite directors, and that judgment is much to her credit. But if you happen to see both films in the double bill, you will quickly understand the difference between the original artist and derivative craftsman...
Just as Forster had difficulty accepting his own homosexuality, he never seemed sure of the value of his "indecent" stories. Periodically he destroyed batches of them, not in "moral repentance" but out of "a craftsman's dissatisfaction...