Word: craftsmanly
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Everywhere the tramps go, they encounter the fear of "community" people, and learn to dread and despise that fear. Muses Bolle. once a skilled cigarmaker, now with "the homeless hands of the displaced craftsman: "If all people had lived in accordance with their collective fears, everyone would have become stationary, like a tree. In their heart of hearts, perhaps, most people would like to be plants, to be tall trees with eyes that could survey their surroundings and always be able to see and convince themselves that no one was coming, no one was going, no one could move; that...
...wall relief so far are the murals in the Olivetti showroom in New York where Nivola worked from the beginning of the stores construction with the architects. They show most clearly the influences of which he speaks: "Sardinian prehistoric constructions and sculptures, traditional costumes, the baker and craftsman." They imply perpectives beyond that of the more anonymous abstract design beyond the boundaries set by Le Corbusier in his comment on Nivola's work: "only plastic ideas cleanly conceived can be written in unstable sand...
...Tale for Midnight recounts the history of a crime, and does it well. Beyond this it can claim little distinction. Frederic Prokosch is a good craftsman with words in their immediacy, but only that. His book as a whole lacks vitality and meaning...
...personal question of his brother's being in love with Johnny's wife. Along with the problem of taking drugs, there is the problem of getting them. In other hands, this complex of elements might strengthen and deepen the story. But Playwright Gazzo is shakiest as a craftsman, and what might enrich only diffuses, what might add to the reality ends by subtracting from...
Water colorist Sgouros, certainly O'Hara's peer as a craftsman, is not bound by so highly conventionalized a style. He is a realist whose mastery of the medium and occasional experimentation put him above the "pretty picture" painters of houses, landscapes, and boat yards. Sgouros' most impressive quality is his technical ability. He knows enough to put a color down and leave it, making it mean something the first time. The tendency toward abstraction in "Highland Light," where an interesting tension is created by bold angular composition, is an important development in Sgouros' work...