Word: artisans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THINGS CHANGE. Don Ameche is an aging artisan mistaken for a Mafia boss, and Joe Mantegna the gangland gofer who helps an old man come alive. David Mamet directed and co-wrote this beguiling men's club anecdote...
...Boston artisan William Brouwer has nearly finished preparing the reproduction and said that it would be ready for installation by mid-October...
...jobs. We don't plan to register." Complained an elderly woman who sells crocheted lampshades: "The inspectors will be poking around all the time. It will be a nightmare." Some entrepreneurs suffer an even worse nightmare. "Look at all the people who got rich during NEP," said a young artisan who makes and sells earrings. "A few years later they were | exiled to Siberia. You never know what's going to happen here...
...Nightshirts. You can't have visions of sugar plums unless you're wearing a cozy nightshirt. Brooks Brothers (46 Newbury) offers a traditional 100 percent cotton flannel sleepshirt for $30, and the Banana Republic sells their Artisan's Nightshirt...
Such questions are intensified by the diversity of "Poetry of the Physical." "What is American about this show," says Smith, "is that there is no identifiable national style." Once craft was considered a handmaiden of art. Artisans made useful or decorative objects to enhance daily life. For American pioneers, making tools and furnishings was a necessity. But the 20th century widened horizons by elevating the craftsman's role. The Bauhaus influence in America allowed the artisan to become a partner of the architect. Later, the abstract expressionist movement in painting and sculpture, with its emphasis on individual statement, swept through...