Word: craftsmanship
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...most dedicated chefs seem to regard their occupation with almost a missionary zeal, feeling perhaps that by cooking "honestly" from scratch and only with natural ingredients they are doing something altruistic. And in an era of mass production, the notion of handmade food fulfills the desire for craftsmanship that weaving and pottery making used...
About 1.7 million houses were completed in the U.S. this year, and a great many of them were homely--lousy craftsmanship, ill-used sites, confused, graceless. All of which makes a new Omaha development called West Fair-acres Village especially promising. The architects, John Goldman and Daniel Solomon, have designed housing the old-fashioned way, comfortably dense, with a pleasantly irregular street grid and just enough stylistic variation. The basic model is an adapted Craftsman bungalow, circa 1920, but a buyer of a one-story house can mix and match from among four brick porches and four compatible timber gable...
...party over? Ivory without Merchant is like Conan without Doyle, or Lloyd without Webber. But I hope Ivory now 76, and Prawer Jhabvala, 78, continue. Just as Merchant-Ivory ignored the death notices for the movie traditions of craftsmanship and delicacy, and revived them for more than 40 years, it would be appropriate, and heroic, for the surviving partners to go on making fine films about the good manners of sad and complicated people...
...sore point to much of the world, Cannes pinned its crowning laurels on Gus Van Sant's Elephant, with its evocation of the Columbine High School massacre, and Fahrenheit 9/11. The prizes were as much messages to the world's only superpower as they were nods to the films' craftsmanship and power...
...stag-reel exertions with a modicum of plot and characterization added, Mona created the blueprint for 70s porno chic. True to Friedman's recipe, it had the boy/girl scene, the girl/girl scene, the orgy scene, and then the kiss-off. It also boasted an honorable mix of no-budget craftsmanship and hippie-dippie who-cares...