Word: craftsmanship
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...specific answers to these queries prove elusive, there is one overriding response to all of them: this film is a fairly typical example of the new incoherence in movies. Especially in the action genre, simple logic-let alone good craftsmanship-is no longer considered a requisite for the audience's pleasure. The theory seems to be that if the characters run around enough, encountering in their hasty passages sufficient amounts of shocking behavior, no one will notice that the story makes no sense. A simpler way of saying this is "What's good enough for television is good...
...deal was an exquisite nugget of Wall Street craftsmanship that concluded at 1:30 one morning last week after an elegant steak and wine dinner in the white and gold opulence of an executive dining room on the 106th floor of New York City's World Trade Center. It was big-very, very big-the biggest ever between two members of Wall Street's financial community. Giant American Express (1980 sales: $5.5 billion) and Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the second largest U.S. brokerage house (1980 sales: $653 million) agreed to merge. Terms: 1.3 American Express shares for each...
This delightful yet damnable lack of substance is why these stories fail to make a lasting impression. One admires the disciplined craftsmanship of the prose, but the stories remain precious objects under glass domes, sealed in pretty things of not much consequence. Like eleven mirages, the collection has a shimmering, evasive beauty that gives pleasure at first but soon makes one feel teased and irritated. The stories glimmer with promise and technical polish and they dazzle for a minute--but suddenly one suspects that it's all a false promise and the real thing has been forsaken for the fool...
...century knowledge as Leonardo gathered within the frame of his own time. Such a man, today, would necessarily be the victim of specialization. But Leonardo knew more than anyone else in the late 15th century about statics, dynamics, hydraulics, geology, paleontology, optics, aerodynamics and anatomy. In the realms of craftsmanship, from the construction of domes and earthworks to the casting of cannon to batter them down, he seems to have known at least as much as any guild master. Nobody else in his time or culture had such a range of interests. Nor did anybody else share his depth...
...Paris; in an automobile accident; in Los Angeles. The New York City-born Harburg, who won an Academy Award in 1939 for Oz's Over the Rainbow, remained productive and outspoken through the '60s and '70s, deploring the newer generations of songsmiths for their "lack of craftsmanship, their imitative music and poor rhymes...