Word: craftsmanly
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...embarks on the rigid program he has mapped out for the rest of his life. He spends ten years learning how to paint watercolors. For the next 20 years he travels the globe, rendering one seaport scene roughly every two weeks and sending each painting to Paris, where a craftsman turns the artwork into a jigsaw puzzle. From 1955 to 1975, Bartlebooth, back in his apartment, solves each puzzle and then has the reassembled watercolor shipped to its place of origin, where it is erased. The beauty of Bartlebooth's life's work is its rigorous uselessness: "starting from nothing...
...psychological denial. It is also a conventional mystery story. There was a reason why that body ended up in front of the Steenwijks' house, and when the key to that puzzle is revealed, moral as well as psychological tumblers fall into place. Director Rademakers is both a careful craftsman and a careful moralist, a man who has the time to pause over the ambiguous nuances of human behavior under pressure and the skill as a filmmaker to exploit them. No fictional film of recent years has more successfully explored the terrain around that crossroad where personal history and megahistory intersect...
...person case: the forces of Evil are at work here. He wants to hit his audience above the neck as well as below the belt. The integration of the occult with the detective story is possible, albeit difficult. However, the task is obviously beyond Parker. Though an extremely talented craftsman, he has consistently found it difficult to muster cinematic subtlety. His previous efforts (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd: The Wall, and Birdy to name three) are virtual textbooks in cinematic exhibitionism, from "sturm und dreck" junior high metaphysics to high school psychoses...
...choreographer, Martins has been quietly moving along classical lines. Not for him the currently fashionable crosscutting of ballet with jazz and modern elements. At his best -- in such works as Les Petits Riens, Calcium Light Night, Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, Eight Easy Pieces -- he is an agile craftsman with some surprising moves and a dry, idiosyncratic drollery. At other times he can be boring and even awkward, uneasy in filling the stage and expanding it. Premiering on the same bill as Les Petits Riens was a futile exercise called Ecstatic Orange, set to a bombinating neo-Stravinsky score...
...antitech 1960s. An outsize salad bowl, meticulously turned from a single chunk of California black walnut by Bob Stocksdale, is notable for its revelation of the wood's grain. A fiddleback, hard-rock-maple- and-ebony rocking chair, a fortunate meeting of Copenhagen and Big Sur by California Master Craftsman Sam Maloof, invites the viewer to experience the best of contemporary artifacts while sitting down in comfort. Maloof, 70, bristles at new developments. Younger artisans, he said during a pre-opening tour of the museum, "don't seem to have any ideas. They work over a piece...