Word: craftsmanship
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...into a record. Motown knows. But, like, the Stones-they'll try a lotta things and see what happens, you know? With the Stones, there's lots of luck." The Turners have no lack of admiration for the Stones, but luck simply isn't part of their style of craftsmanship. "Why, the Stones," Ike states, "sound better jamming in the dressing room before a show than they ever do in a show or on record... Keith Richards is one of the best. But he can be hitting the wrong notes, completely messing up, and the fans'll be screaming their...
...best. Having established himself as a splendid standin, Thomas was asked to fly to London on short notice in May to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra. He was brilliant, especially in Stravinsky's Huxley Variations, a fiercely difficult musical mosaic that he seamed together with high craftsmanship. Said Stuart Knussen, principal double bass and board chairman of the cooperatively run orchestra, "He is one of those unique complete musicians who seem to appear, if at all, in America. We don't have them in England...
...year-old third wife divorced him and he married his present wife, then 23, within less than a month. Although the technical expertise he gained as a New Deal chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has been indispensable to a host of antitrust decisions, his legal craftsmanship can be careless. He writes articles for Playboy and other magazines, and is an outspoken off-the-bench activist on issues ranging from U.S. recognition of Red China to the ecological misdeeds of the Army Corps of Engineers. Such advocacy piques those who feel that Supreme Court Justices should be more magisterial...
...exhibitions in honor of its hundredth anniversary, 19th-Century America. comes prepared to outdo the previous exhibitions in claborate display, quantity and splendour. With the bravura of technicolor and wide screen, the museum puts hundreds of paintings and sculptures among a setting of period furniture and decorative art with craftsmanship and detail stripped from design today...
...SAME craftsmanship extended to the female leads in the production. The role of Katasha, the aging, vindictive, bitchy noblewoman, requires a strong coloratura-type voice and a commanding stage presence, and Andrea Goodzeit provided both of these. Her voice had a pure yet vibrant timbre which eclipsed all of the other singers. She is a fine stage actress as well as a singer, and her demeanor was well suited to the role. similarly, Deborah Ward, as Yum-Yum, the child bride, had complete control of the character, although her voice was at times weak...