Word: craftsmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite the early virtuoso was Rouben Mamoulian. Mamoulian seemed to be experimenting constantly. His most accepted successes were on the stage (he directed the original stage version of "Porgy and Bess" for example) but his pictures exude a creative excitement that seems to say to the pedestrian studio craftsman, "Well boys, here's a little trick you might pick up on." The opening of Love Me Tonight, the slow rousing waking of a city from sleep, is one of the sunniest, most cheerful and nonchalant pieces of virtuousity you're likely to find anywhere. Mamoulian is witty...
...film as Redford; partly because he plays the more interesting character, his performance may well be more vividly remembered. At 38, Hoffman is the best character lead in the business; it seems impossible to imagine anyone else as Carl Bernstein. On the set Hoffman is a tough, uncompromising craftsman. Pakula's crablike approach to film making, which so unnerved Redford, was just fine with Hoffman, who thrives on improvisation. "I fight like hell with my directors," he says, "but this was a relatively pleasant experience...
Mollenhoff is a dexterous craftsman, but sometimes the progression of the book is lost in a flood of details which encumber the reader and threaten to spoil the clarity of the author's argument. The presence of numerous passages from old Des Moines Register issues leaves one with the suspicion that Mollenhoff enjoys pulling old columns from his scrapbook every so often in search of a good quote. The pace slackens especially during the last third of the narrative, where the morass of Watergate-related comings and goings leaves the reader with a "deja vu" feeling; a wish to escape...
...LATER PERIODS, birds and animals appear as small statuettes carved in the round and as geometricized plaques, and pendants. Shapes become more intricate, the number of carved and polished edges attesting to the virtuosity of the craftsman. Pi disks are adorned with raised spirals and the ornamental design of an object becomes interesting in itself as a thing independent of the material in which it is carved. New shapes are introduced and a twisting sinuous motion begins to pervade carvings of dragons and felines but the older, more severe forms still exercise a tremendous hold on the Chinese imagination...
Guerin thumbs a tattered copy of Arizona Highways. They are going to a little town to buy turquoise next week, he explains, but only from a certain Indian craftsman. "We should probably call to see if he'll be there...