Word: craftsmanship
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BRIAN WILSON: BRIAN WILSON (Sire). Anthems from 'round the bend and supernal pop craftsmanship...
...Professor David Lewin '54 received his undergraduate degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, before choosing music as his profession. "Both fields are very abstract," he says in an interview, "and both give a similar type of pleasure. They both involve the pleasure of puzzle-solving and the pleasure of craftsmanship, and seem to put you in touch with something humanistically profound." Unlike most other fields, he says, social utility is rarely a chief motivation...
HOLLY KNIGHT (Columbia). Big-time pop craftsmanship by a songwriter who is responsible for several hits (like Love Is a Battlefield) recorded by others...
...down to the fabric, wires and rivets -- of those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending it 125 ft. high, its miniature control flaps guiding it across the field for 67 sec., one of three flights that made...
...just Catalan in name. It prolongs the spirit of older Barcelonan artists and architects, a sense of material fantasy that still saturates the place and gives Corbero's work its sardonic, free-associating air and its obsessively fine craftsmanship. There are delicious Miroesque touches in this show, like the comb jauntily set on the queen's head, grooved with the bars of the Catalan shield, or the wacky little pyramid that balances on the needle peak of a pawn called Miss Capicua, 1987-88. Other details resurrect the images of heraldic encounter, the dungeons and dragons that lie within...