Word: craftsmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love story, and they build their narrative around the kind of forced farcical coincidences that went out of style with I Love Lucy. Howard Zieff, the talented director of Slither and Hearts of the West, works diligently to paper over the rough spots; he is an enviably good craftsman. Yet even he cannot rescue House Calls once it starts to become heartwarming. When a romantic montage concludes with Ann and Charley walking along a deserted beach, the movie becomes as gooey as You Light Up My Life...
...rule in reviewing thrillers is to be elusive. Tell the beginning but never tell the middle and the end. In the beginning, Sidney Bruhl (John Wood) is a guileful craftsman of stage thrillers who has a writer's block. It's a fairly long block, almost as wide and arid as the Sahara. For 17 years he has failed to concoct a Broadway...
...complaints about the pitching staff have of course been a season-long beef, but are not altogether justified. Manager Don Zimmer and pitching coach Al Jackson have been a svcond guesser'b dream with a lot of their moves and Tiant has never resembled the consistent craftsman who won 20 or more games three of the last four years. But amidst all this, the staff's earned run average is still a respectable 4.19, considering Fenway Park, the designated hitter and recent expansion...
...What he discovered was that certain personality types are far more successful than others in gravitating to the top of the corporate heap, while the rest are either forced out along the way or drop out on their own, for lack of desire. Three of the identified species--the Craftsman, who succeeds because of his skill in producing a fine product, the Jungle Fighter, whose specialty is high-stakes politicking and backstabbing, and the Company Man, who gets ahead because he'd rather lose his family than his job--are familiar types who have had their day but are being...
...book offers fascinating insight into the details of ancient Egyptian customs and the intricacies of dynastic politics, which the author has adapted deftly to his main theme. And Drury has clearly not lost his old gift for sustained narrative that salvaged some of his previous works. An accomplished literary craftsman if nothing else, he has skillfully worked this great mass of complex detail into a smooth stream of polished prose...