Word: craftsmanship
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...replicas, through hobby dealers. The company's deluxe "Tiffany" set of glossy cards on heavily coated paper stock in serially numbered boxes sells for $125.95. Similarly, Fleer has gone upscale with its Commemorative Collectors Edition, encased in elegant gold-lacquered tin and extolled for its "meticulous detail and masterful craftsmanship" (up to $129.95). "There's no end in sight to all the different sets," says Allan Kaye, editor of Baseball Card News, a trade paper. The most novel selling approach may come from Major League Marketing. Its staple issue, Sportflics, features a polarized image process with three sequential action shots...
...competitive toward his sons, believably ecstatic at word that he is "gonna be somebody's daddy" by an unseen mistress. And it is unlikely that he and his wife, so eager for respectability, would debate this news in the backyard, with neighbors' windows a dozen feet away. Nonetheless, in craftsmanship, poignance and lingering impact, Fences represents a major step forward for Wilson. In the decade or so since the emergence of David Mamet, the American stage has not heard so impassioned and authentic a new voice...
...THAT WAS it: superstition made metaphysical reality, through artful and intelligent craftsmanship. Landis is far from the most offensive practitioner of this cinematic strand--few could equal Steven Spielberg's contributions to mass know-nothingness--but it is unfortunate to watch so much talent put to so little good. In his own mind, Landis is a subtle social commentator who is also able to sell tickets. He said he viewed Trading Places as a statement against racism and Spies Like Us, a film universally dismissed as lame, as the first picture to take a stand against President Reagan's "Star...
...this splendid craftsmanship, popular moviemaking at its best, is in the service of building rooting interest in the story of a woman who keeps finding ways to transcend the limits that unexamined custom often imposes on her sex. In action pictures, women are supposed to swoon or retreat to a safe corner (or, at best, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition) while the male lead protects them and defends Western civilization as we know it. In Aliens, it is the guys who are all out of action at the climax and Ripley who is in a death duel with...
...gold and worn white, in a pattern transferred directly from photos of rusted iron. "I'm neither anti-Western nor pro-Eastern," Mori explains. "I'm interested in making clothes that bring out the originality of the individual." His dresses are unemphatic tokens of elegance, breezy bits of hotshot craftsmanship with a certain sophistication of spirit that sets him apart from most of his contemporaries. "I wouldn't want to tell people how to wear clothes," he cautions. "Clothes are like little babies. However they adapt to their environment is fine...