Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Come Back, Africa. Filmed in secret and crude in craftsmanship, Lionel (On the Bowery) Rogosin's candid-camera movie manages a fairminded, matter-of-fact look at a modern nightmare: the black depths of South African society...
Come Back, Africa. Filmed in secret and crude in craftsmanship, Lionel (On the Bowery) Rogosin's candid-camera movie manages a fairminded, matter-of-fact look at a modern nightmare: the black depths of South African society...
...cinema journalism: a matter-of-fact, horrifying study of life in the black depths of South African society. Filmed in secret by a 36-year-old moviemaker named Lionel (On the Bowery) Rogosin, who worked in constant danger of arrest and deportation, Come Back, Africa is necessarily crude in craftsmanship. But Rogosin's camera looks deep into the private nightmare and social desperation of a man and a people...
Died. Adriano Olivetti, 58, Italian industrialist who turned a one-plant operation he inherited in 1932 into Europe's No. 1 manufacturer of typewriters and office machines of such craftsmanship that they grace art museums as well as offices; of a heart attack, aboard a train in Aigle, Switzerland. An idealistic businessman as well as a sound one, Olivetti boasted that he gave his workers the best conditions in Italy and a voice in management. In off hours he promoted a broad-based cooperative movement, on the strength of it won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...Herbert's Sweethearts, he confided to the audience: "Never was a thin plot so complicated." When informed in Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman that the alphabet is divided into vowels and consonants, he rejoined: "That's only fair." A master of low comedy, Bobby brought craftsmanship to roles great and small. His favorite dramatist: Shakespeare, because "the clowns never get killed...