Word: craftsmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gremlins has enough style and savvy to stand on its own as the summer's most original Hollywood picture. Like so many other recent works produced by the film-school generation, this is at heart a movie about movies, and about the innocent thrills a sophisticated team of craftsmen can elicit; it should give pleasure to stouthearted children, as well as to Ph.D.s in cinema studies, and in the bargain share the laurels of summer box-office smash with the inevitable Indiana Jones. This is what superior popular moviemaking is all about: using high technology and a cheerfully bonkers...
...Bloomfield Hills, is, in fact, our equivalent of the Bauhaus, and it has had an equally profound influence on our contemporary design. The Bauhaus search for a machine-age aesthetic was revolutionary, a radical break with the past. The Cranbrook approach was evolutionary. Its artists and craftsmen created new designs not with dogmas or preconceived notions but by enthusiastic, almost playful experimentation with traditional craftsmanship and styles...
...Communist regime has responded to the growing sense of dislocation by appealing to German nationalism and the past glories of Prussia and Saxony. At least 80 local artists and 400 craftsmen have spent four years and $120 million meticulously restoring the Semper Opera in Dresden, which was destroyed in an Anglo-American fire bombing raid in 1945. The famous equestrian statue of Frederick the Great that graced the Unter den Linden until World War II has returned to its pedestal like an old piece of furniture reclaimed from the attic and restored to its proper place. The sudden fascination with...
...discos in the capital--Sahara Lounge, El Bigote, L'Objet--are teeming with partygoers until 4 a.m.; the craftsmen and street peddlers at Plaza Barrios are hungry for foreign cash and are willing to give you up to 375 colones to the dollar instead of the official rate of 250 colones; and the Pacific beaches along Costa Del Sol--with its gnarly surfing at La Libertdad--and Barra de Santiago to the South of San Salvador put Lauderdale and Nauset to shame...
...antique merry-go-round animals, closes the distance between this forgotten martial art and the magic of the amusement park. Gary Sinick's photographs of stallions frozen in mid-prance, oversize rabbits, frogs and chickens reveal the wealth of detail and coloration that distinguished the finest carousel craftsmen of the U.S. and Europe. The form gave wide latitude to the imagination. English Carver C.J. Spooner, for example, commemorated British heroes of the Boer War with a series of centaurs. Among them: a figure that is half horse and half General Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, the founder...