It was only the pleasure he felt in his tactile awareness of sewing and fabric, of the hands of the maker in the garment, that led him, again and again, to risk the danger of seeing himself — literally; reflected in the mirror of a bar, perhaps — as somehow faintly ridiculous.
Even if we can be shown a forty-foot gorilla that sways and moves as giant gorillas really might, we enjoy one that shakes and trembles from frame to frame — because what we really value, and commune with, is not the thing made but the mind and hand of the hidden maker.
"[But] technology today is in the hands of the money makers and the war-makers.
At an advanced stage of emotional development the fate of the brain and body are hijacked from the hands of the emotions into the hand of the conscious decision-maker.
Putting aside the fact that a high-end milliner is partnering with a travel agency (yeah, we don't get it either), let's examine the most peculiar fact at hand: the maker of some of the world's most elaborate, extravagant hats will be designing for little kids.
Tokuma rarely visited the studio, convinced that his business interests would be best served by leaving creative decisions in the hands of the film-makers.
The stretching floury disks that collapsed on the hands of the dough-makers in their chef's hats, fists working the disks around, dough growing in girth, orbit, then back up in the air.
We are all victims, cops and citizens alike, at the hands of the decision makers.
