Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This serving of true love on a technicolor platter, is just a little more than routine. Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, though uninspired, still show a high degree of polish and workmanship. And the same can be said of Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the picture. The latter is responsible for a few deft touches, but did little else to add artistic interest...
...tried to market it (TIME, Aug. 29), sold out to Textron Inc. The price: $70,000 in cash and the prospect of more in royalties. With the bright merchandising idea, Textron also got full title to the job of soothing irate Poses' customers who are griping over shoddy workmanship and non-delivery of orders...
...many companies employers could lay the basis for lower prices by demanding and getting a higher standard of workmanship all around. Last week, a survey of 1,000 manufacturers by Mill & Factory magazine showed that 55% reported productivity on the upgrade...
...chst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended wit and workmanship. Five hundred such pieces, crammed into three small rooms at the Met, made a sparkling show...
...small publishing firm of Devin-Adair has now brought out a selection of 15 of O'Faoláin's short stories. They are like pieces chipped off a larger design, showing, despite their incompleteness, a wonderful workmanship...