Word: craftsmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master craftsman would wind up his 11-piece watch and for 48 minutes simply observe as it methodically ran to perfection. Adjustments or tuneups were unnecessary. The watchmaker could just sit back and witness the precise action and movement of the pieces and enjoy the warm glow that a sense of accomplishment brings...
...Colts nonetheless managed to stay within range of the Jets-largely through a stellar passing performance (26 completions for 376 yds. and two touchdowns) by their canny old craftsman Johnny Unitas-until the final quarter. It was then that Namath displayed his instinct for the jugular. First he wound up and heaved a 79-yd. touchdown pass to Tight End Richard Caster. A few minutes later, the Colts scored, narrowing the Jets' margin to three points. When New York got the ball again, Namath called a pass play that could have gone to one of three receivers. Meanwhile...
...strangled rape victim, expired, with eyes bulging and her tongue hanging out). Ignore all those metaphysically-minded Frenchmen who treat even the man's stinkers with respect, and forget the cultists who enshrine his purely technical skills and elevate them to levels of high art. Hitchcock is a popular craftsman, and what matters to him are the tricks which make audiences respond with pleasure. Judged appropriately, by the box-office tallies, Frenzy may be the first film of any worth made by Hitchcock since Psycho...
...Allen's spoken words often have a slapdash, off-the-cuff quality-most outrageously displayed in his film What's Up, Tiger Lily, a Japanese melodrama bearing Woody's hilarious non-sequitur dubbing. Yet his written prose displays the tongue-and-groove perfectionism of a genuine craftsman. "Allen is a marvel of a willing and hard-working writer," says Roger Angell, fiction editor of The New Yorker. "The first things he submitted to us were funny, but not really written; one heard a stand-up comic -good jokes, but just jokes. Allen has made himself an accomplished...
...last plays, The Solid Gold Cadillac. He was late in a line of distinguished collaborators who included Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Moss Hart. Teichmann approaches his subject with enormous respect. He usually addressed Kaufman as "Mr. Kaufman." For Kaufman was the professional professional, and a sleepless craftsman who believed that plays were not written but rewritten...