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Soon the company was importing top craftsmen from Europe to design elegant plumbing fixtures. In 1929 several Kohler products, including a black enamel lavatory with a marble counter top, were displayed at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the mid-1960s, the company brought bold colors to the bathroom with tubs and toilets in deep shades of red, blue and avocado. Nonetheless, when Herbert Kohler became chairman in 1972, he decided that plumbing had not reached its potential. Says he: "I felt we could innovate with shapes and colors to change the whole function...
...text? On the evidence of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner-and his previous thriller, the 1979 Alien-it would seem so. Says David Dryer, who helped supervise the special photographic effects of Blade Runner: "The environment in the film is almost a protagonist." He and other talented craftsmen are lavishing their imaginations on graphic design-on high-tech spaceships and déja vu futurism-and allowing the characters to wander through a labyrinthine narrative like lost dwarfs. Moviegoers seeking the smooth propulsion of story line look at these films and ask, "What's going on here?" Directors...
...Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century $20 gold pieces and 20th century quarters to brass door knockers and even mass-produced "colonial-style" paper-towel dispensers. American craftsmen have featured the proud bird on such homely items as belt buckles, silk kerchiefs, pewter plates, pillowcases and coverlets, bureaus and mantelpieces. More than 1,700 U.S. crags, towns and waterways have been named for the eagle, from Eagleville, Calif, (pop. 200), to Eagle Lake in Maine...
...great architects of conservatism, like Edmund Burke, envisioned their political philosophy as a kind of intellectual cathedral, resting on solid principles but being modified and enriched by later craftsmen. "All government," wrote Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Many of the modern Presidents who have been hailed by Reagan shared that view. Dwight Eisenhower had an uncanny instinct for outrunning events and using them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open...
...right decision. Waugh, one of the great prose craftsmen of the 20th century, must have realized that his 14-year-old Charles was a faint carbon copy of his public school self. Ryder attends "Spierpoint" just after World War I; Waugh went to Lancing at the same time. Details and dialogue are loosely transplanted from the author's diaries. Like Waugh, young Ryder exhibits a monkish passion for drawing and illuminated texts. Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type...