Word: craftsmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed a mite histrionic to TIME'S Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote the story in New York. Magnuson has bought half a dozen houses in eight years, all of them among the granite and evergreen hills of New Hampshire. Each time, his wife Mae and a skilled craftsman have fixed up the homestead, to see it sold at a profit. Currently, the Magnusons reside in the town of New London, N.H., in a four-bedroom house for which they paid $59,000 last autumn. The taxes are under $800. Muses Magnuson: "Considering that New Hampshire has no sales...
...Whitney, a craftsman in the American grain...
...California tracks this winter, Cauthen's remarkable winning record fell off slightly, and the going in New York will be more testing in his sophomore year. No longer merely a phenomenon, he is a craftsman now, settling in for the long haul. But like vintage port, he can only get better with age. Real race riders always do. Steve Cauthen is a real...
Well, did it happen quite that way? The series accomplished much, mainly in transmitting information about events that must never be forgotten. But it raised many questions, both trivial and profound. Scriptwriter Green, an intelligent and indefatigable craftsman, author of The Last Angry Man, designed an epic that follows a bourgeois German Jewish doctor, Josef Weiss, and his family through the stricken, incomprehensible years 1935 to 1945. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss die at Auschwitz, as does their oldest son, Karl. A daughter, Anna, becomes autistic after her rape by drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged...
...been more "faithful" to Chandler's story line than Hawks and his writers (among them, William Faulkner) is no virtue at all. What matters is being faithful to Chandler's singular vision, and that requires acts of cinematic imagination that are beyond the reach of the crude craftsman whose biggest previous success was Death Wish...