Word: craftsmanly
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...labored in the tomb three millenniums ago left unexpected evidence of their fallibility. The rows of stars in the funerary ceiling were kept straight by strings stretched from wall to wall. In the sarcophagus chamber, conservators discovered a row of fingerprints left along a string line by a careless craftsman. In one corner, a contractor had scratched in hieroglyphics his accounting of work completed. And on one pillar, Nefertari's flesh-toned cheek is splotched with blue ceiling paint. Could it be that she died before the tomb was completed and the artisans in their haste failed to remove...
...cobbler when he was nine years old, was a magician who worked with feet. He well understood the talismanic power of shoes, their ability to enchant and arouse, to dazzle and intrigue. He created shoes that were walking fantasies. But at the same time he was a craftsman who understood how a pair of ill-fitting shoes can ruin a day and how a pair of clunky shoes can make a duchess feel dowdy...
...Bina's creations after the show would get a 30 percent discount--just tonight and only for us. The staged exotica, the announcer repeatedly exclaimed, were made in India and handcrafted by refugee artisans from Afghanistan and Iran--I suppose the skills of indigenous Indian craftsman are not quaint or exotic enough to make it to an international fashion show these days...
...Martian Chronicles. Both satirize contemporary life by mixing symbols of daily existence with elements of the fantastic. In Bradbury's book, however, these various aspects were perfectly mixed and balanced. The author wove his tale using both these elements as his thread. Arenas is not nearly so skilled a craftsman...
Other first-years had put varying degrees of thought into how they would furnish their suites. Marion B. Gammill '95 was in the furniture section of the Harvard Coop on Friday afternoon with her mother. "I need a stand for my printer that I can put together without a craftsman's degree," she said. "I might buy a bean bag, too. My roommates and I are bringing a refrigerator, TV and VCR from home...