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...revolutionary stirrings of Italian unification. To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita. Both books share the style of an ironic, sometimes witty guided tour through a family album. Lampedusa was the greater craftsman and the subtler artist. Where The Leopard became an elegy for an aristocratic way of life, Ippolita comes close to being an opera about the waywardness of life...
...catholic tastes. He was an admitted raconteur, a passionate hunter and trout fisherman (he made his own skillfully fashioned rods), a talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died, at 65, of a heart attack...
...name to it and in the note leaves Philip's entire estate to the mistress. Tom then seduces the mistress, who insists that he live with her-in Philip's apartment, on Philip's money. The Eastmancolor photography by Henri Decaë, a superb young craftsman who rode the New Wave (The Four Hundred Blows, The Cousins) to success, bathes all this in an innocent holiday light that makes the crime seem the more hideous by contrast, like a big hairy spider crawling slowly across a travel poster...
Passion for Quality. Now back on the job after his third hospitalization for cancer in 18 months. Fred Maytag staunchly says: '"I do not intend to diminish my activities in any respect." He is acutely aware that Grandfather Maytag's most valuable bequest was his craftsman's passion for high mechanical quality. Mass production has made this increasingly hard to achieve-especially in complicated automatic washers. So once again, Maytag is bucking the trend with a pilot program giving each worker a more complex role to perform on the assembly line. Says one woman employee, whose...
...Simon family in Rheims, Chagall first made sketches of the windows, cut out models in colored paper and fabrics to simulate the design, then personally poured the acid on the glass to achieve the precise, subtle gradations of color he sought. "He was constantly correcting, changing," said Craftsman-Collaborator Charles Marq, "asking the impossible which in the end always became possible...