Word: craftsmanship
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...Even so, Maazel is unlikely to prove as tough as the stony-faced Szell, who also began as a child prodigy. Few conductors could. In every other way, he seems to be the one youngish maestro around who most resembles Szell in style, craftsmanship and musical taste. Like his predecessor, Maazel is a strict constructionist who regards the printed score as his own personal bill of rights. He is capable of passion, but not at the expense of symmetry and the sturdy line. He is widely acknowledged as a supreme podium technician...
...symbolism and Robert Shaw's script are heavy, the action is fairly swift. Losey contributes some precise craftsmanship, Shaw and McDowell a couple of very good performances, Spanish deserts and mountains some arrestingly picturesque vistas. The combination is not quite enough to make up for the inflated metaphors, which bob about on the surface of the action like a collection of lopsided inner tubes. Without them, the film would be just another action flick, rather better engineered than most...
...faced up to the cases that came before it, many of them rooted in long neglect of individual rights by state courts and legislatures. Still, better-reasoned decisions could have mollified the court's legal critics and perhaps to some extent the public. The lesson is clear: judicial craftsmanship outranks judicial crusading...
ESCHEWING ideology for style, Rags has only begun to answer such questions. But the inevitable answers are there to be found. Although refusing to resolve the issue in its Boutique number, Rags reporters do make it clear that individual craftsmanship, even if it embroils you in buying and selling and warding off rip-offs, is pretty cool-as long as you watch where your head is at. And Rags admires those who break corporate rules-whether they be designers on the Lower East Side or secretaries who flaunt the company's dress code. There is a real effort being made...
...Angeles look" has been visible in American art for years now. It is both unmistakable and hard to define. Developed by a generation of Southern Californian artists who became nationally known in the early and middle '60s, it is cool, elaborately finished and somewhat hermetic: craftsmanship pursued as a form of meditation...