Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimable Richard Libertini going pocketa-pocketa as Sharky's Machine warms up is not to be lightly dismissed. And neither is Reynolds' good sense of the way the sordid and the sleek coexist in Big City life. The man has a feel for the director's craft that could, some day, permit him to break the genre bonds that finally trip him up here...
...showed his usual skill in evasion, but he's a master of the craft," Galbraith said after the debate...
Although Boeing's sales are slowing a bit, the company still dominates world commercial aviation. Boeing now has enough back-ordered planes to keep it busy into 1986, and it will be putting a new craft into service annually for the next three years: the 767 in 1982, the 757 in 1983 and the 737-300 in 1984. The first 757 will be unveiled next month in Seattle. Just behind those planes are plans for a new craft code named the 7-7. This would be a 150-passenger plane. Boeing is currently talking to the Japanese government...
...homicide," says Noguchi. "It was not a suicide. It was an accident." His autopsy revealed that she had drunk "seven or eight" glasses of wine. There were about a dozen craft near by. Aboard one was Marilyn Wayne, a Beverly Hills commodities broker, who says she was anchored just 100 yds. from the Wagners. At about midnight, she says, "I could hear someone saying, 'Help me! Somebody help me!' " She claims the cries lasted for more than 15 min. and that from somewhere in the darkness came the answer: "Take it easy. We'll be over...
Kreisler's achievement of learning the craft of composition might be commendable if his method were not Machiavellian--he accomplished his ends by stealing and lying (it was the only way for a violinist to succeed in a field so competitive and demanding.) He filched the style and flavor of classical composers and used them in his own works. Fortunately, he admitted his crimes--for musicologists' sakes--in pieces like "Variations on a Theme of Corelli in the Style of Giuseppe Tartini." But he sometimes tried to fool other composers by publishing old-style pieces under the names of 18th...