Word: craftsmanly
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What Thiebaud especially loves, however, more than food or the memory of food--and perhaps even more than people, at least from the pictorial point of view--is craft. He is a terrific craftsman. Whatever he asks paint to do, it will (almost invariably) do, and come up smiling and looking effortless after it's done. With a very few exceptions, every picture in this show displays a sort of seraphic ease with itself, an unfussed wholeness. The surface is dense, creamy and unctuous, yet it never looks dragged or displays the laborious appearance of palette-knife work...
...Clearly a labor of love, the book is carefully structured, with Southern's serious thoughts on literature, cinema, and drugs bracketing his work as a short-story craftsman, a critic, a New Journalist, and a writer of blissfully puerile "letters." The pieces were selected and edited by Nile Southern, writer and son of the Grand Guy, and Josh Alan Friedman, musician, author of the terrific "Tales of Times Square" and a series of venomously funny cartoons, and the son of brilliant novelist Bruce Jay Friedman...
...previous ones. The Red Thread is basically another Arab Strap album. Arab Strap consistently produces sad, relaxing music. It is spare and, despite its obsession with post-coital anxiety, satisfying and wise. The band takes up common themes that usually inspire loud, angry rock and treats them delicately, like craftsman, with mature, objective description. Arab Strap has dignified the "songs about fucking" genre...
...elaborate sports bar at ESPN Zone. You will be able to get an adult beverage, both there and in one of the gourmet restaurants in the new park. (What would Uncle Walt think!) And plopped right in the middle of it all is the Grand Californian, a 751-room craftsman-style luxury hotel that's part Gustav Stickley, part Swiss chalet and all Disney...
...Aaron Spelling has taught the world anything, it's that a story doesn't need redeeming social value to keep us riveted by the details. Plot is key; so are passion and powerful people behaving their worst when the stakes matter the most. As a craftsman, Spelling would no doubt appreciate the tortuous tale of Susan Chrzanowski, a Michigan judge and divorce who, over the course of a year, journeyed from pillar of the community to key witness at her married lover's murder trial and then to focal point of public rancor over the deceit and misconduct produced...