Word: craftsmen
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Appropriately for the Christmas season, a Manhattan gallery was showing some of the most elaborate grownups' toys ever made: automatons produced largely in the 18th Century by Swiss and British craftsmen. There was a gold caterpillar that, when wound, inched along a tabletop in a pretty fair imitation of nature. A gold mouse, ridged with pearls, scurried, stopped, spun and darted about as if in real fright. An emerald-green frog jumped and croaked...
...animated and fresh than his plot. A composer who owes a lot to Debussy and Ravel, he gives his orchestra a palette full of colors, his 40 singers (at Tanglewood, all students) arias and choruses with wit, tune and charm. Le Roi is the work of a king among craftsmen, if not of a composer working by divine right...
...moviemaking techniques; it is also a blistering commentary on Hollywood manners & morals. The film shows Hollywood as a jungle stronghold of anarchic opportunism, where success is the highest end, to be pursued by any means and at any price. It also suggests that the movies have their honest craftsmen and-derisively labeled "the Message Kids"-their idealists...
...catch its share of the swarms of postwar tourists, the proud city of Antwerp (pop. 266,636) has been delving into its rich old attic and displaying its heirlooms-the work of generations of Flemish craftsmen and painters. This summer Antwerp is trying something...
...Outlander makes no pretense to literary importance. But Madame Guevremont, 53, mother of four children, writes about her paysans and their river farms with calm. Gallic simplicity. Although her awkwardly woven novel has many literary holes, they let in a great deal of the human light that better craftsmen often block...