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...that Pimp's viewers - watching a channel increasingly dedicated to the idea that a car, or a mansion, or a new pair of breasts, is the ticket to fulfillment - realize there are cheaper routes to self-esteem. "We're about to put $20,000 into a $900 car," a craftsman boasts as he rebuilds a pathetic Mitsubishi Mirage for Antwon, a 19-year-old art student. The gleaming, finished car is hilariously over the top (it includes a built-in fish tank), and Antwon is delighted. But I have to wonder: Wouldn't he be better off with...
...however, certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre—a modern standard for which was set by Scott with 1990’s aptly-titled Revenge—and even this craftsman cannot avoid them. Think about it this way: Marc Anthony appears in Man looking like an extra from Wall Street, but that cannot hide his essential sensual smoulder from coming through. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as the CIA’s last intelligence report, but the man who brought the world Ice Man still...
After 17 years as a master craftsman and many more before that as an apprentice, the 51-year-old Childs belongs to a worldwide elite of artisans. He has built 140 violins and 20 violas and caters to a range of top players, including a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a Scottish national champion, and an all- Ireland fiddle champ. Working only on commission, Childs says he finishes five or six violins in a given year. He says it is not a simple matter of making an instrument, but suiting the type of sound to a musician?...
This ability to engage people outside academia makes Pinker stand out among his peers. “He is, above all else and above most other people, an excellent craftsman at communicating many ideas simply,” Sahin says. “Simple in this case means reducible to concepts that are digested by an interested and intellectual but not necessarily expert listener or reader...
...Lady of the Forest never goes quite as deeply into spiritual revelation or narrative resolution as readers might want. But it gives us an unflinching picture of Hawthorne's descendants in the wake of Kurt Cobain. More than that, it shows Guterson to be a serious and searching craftsman, very much in the American grain and determined to take himself further, into questions of possession (and of dispossession). Sometimes it feels as if all the neglected voices of the Pacific Northwest--self-righteous slackers, trailer-park priests, the sexually abused--are pouring through him in this book. What we choose...