Word: craftsmanship
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...also never too late to read or reread Waugh. His vitality, matchless craftsmanship, audacious imagination and stinging perceptions ("She wore the livery of the highest fashion, but as one who dressed to inform rather than to attract") have not dated. Like Charles Ryder, the painter hero of Brideshead Revisited, Waugh focused "the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism...
...sculpture to perk up a building, it argues, one will probably get something made of brightly painted pipes, drums and I-beams. So why not forget sculpture and paint the ducts one has? "We've plunged headlong into the decorative arts," says the firm's head, Hugh Hardy. "Craftsmanship is busting out all over. It's clearly a reaction to the asceticism of the Modern movement...
Seductive beauty and ageless craftsmanship account largely for the drawing power of Tut's treasures. "They are so fresh they kind of wipe out time," says Thomas Moving, who as former head of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum organized the show and has written the best-selling Tutankhamun: The Untold Story (Simon and Schuster; $12.95). Although many of the exhibit's 55 pieces are gold, Hoving maintains that the value of the collection is "not a critical part of its popularity." (Asked how much it is worth, he replies airily: "$416,872,417.68, plus green stamps...
...also a millennium, and the accumulated force of that realization heightens a certain apolcalyptic impulse, a febrile fatigue. As if to accommodate this spirit and contain it, the country seems to want to settle only for a credible competence in its education, its government, its means of pleasure, its craftsmanship. It should never want less, but it ought to aspire to more, and universities and colleges must have the will and the energy to focus themselves, and the nation, on renewal despite the entropy that a sense of closure creates. Because the next years in our enterprise of education will...
...craftsmanship and the tone are suggestive of Andrew Wyeth, but the new painting of Lady Bird Johnson is in fact by New Yorker Aaron Shikler, best known for the official White House portraits of President John F. Kennedy and his widow Jacqueline Onassis. Commissioned by Jane Engelhard, widow of Industrialist Charles Engelhard, the Lady Bird canvas was painted in Texas last spring when the bluebonnets were in bloom, and will be on permanent display at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin. Said Lady Bird last week: "I'm crazy about it. I feel very much in tune with...