Word: craftsmanly
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...violent? Yeeessss... Um, did I loveit? Yeah! I really liked it, and I liked it morethe second time through, once I knew kind of whatwas coming up. The first time it's just soshocking! But you know, I look at things a littlebit differently, you know, just from a craftsman'spoint of view." What was I expecting? ANobel-Prize-in-literature acceptance speech? Ishould have asked her to meow again...
...communist soldiers storm down the hill after them. Fugui and Chungsheng run, but it is futile. Like a stream of lava overtaking them, Mao's forces surround Fugui and Cheungsheng. This scene immediately distinguishes "To Live" from any other film in recent memory. It is the work of a craftsman with a lot of money to spend. It is the stuff that makes movies larger than life...
...Lavishly Illustrated Award for 1994 goes to this first of a projected three-volume history of the decorative arts. Eight hundred plates, 500 in color, display ornamental works (painting, sculpture, furniture, textiles, ceramics and other glorious gewgaws) created between 1480 and 1630, a period in which European craftsman broke with the aesthetics of the Middle Ages and looked to antiquity for inspiration. This collection is stunning evidence that they found...
...word suggests a stubbornly unfashionable emphasis on structure and language over movie tie-ins and seven- digit advances. As Max Saw It (Knopf; 146 pages; $21) -- Louis Begley's second novel after his award-winning 1991 debut, Wartime Lies -- is simultaneously contemporary and the work of an elegant craftsman of the old school. Containing nary an ill-chosen word, As Max Saw It may turn out to be the most perfectly constructed novel...
...into Artistic Tattooing, Itried to force an expression of indifference ontomy face, hoping that no one would notice my badlyshaking hands. I was fighting a losing battle: thequiet drone of the electric needle made me queasy,and I could hear my voice tremble as I askedRusty, AT's master craftsman, if there wasanything to which...