Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every week as many as 600 Haitians land in rickety craft on south Florida beaches. For more than two years, lax official attitudes and a tangle of litigation prevented the INS from rounding up the illegals and shipping them home. But a court in December freed the INS to throw out unauthorized Haitians, and the agency has just begun doing...
...milk," he becomes more surly, maudlin, fatalistic. His life is crumbling; he knows it and, trouper to the end, makes a slam-bang show out of it. So does Carl Chase, who plays Williams. He does not look like Hank; he does not sound much like him. But through craft or luck or force of will, he becomes Williams. The competition is tough, but Chase is giving what may be the finest, fiercest performance on the London stage this summer...
...plenty of amenities for its occupants: 20 viewports, exercise machines for physical fitness and, for the first time in orbit, an on-board television receiver to help relieve the long hours of isolation. The monotony was also broken by the visits of other cosmonauts, who arrived in Soyuz ferry craft, the workhorses of the Soviet manned space effort. In addition to regular supplies, they carried mail, such special snacks as fresh borsch, strawberries and quail pate, not to mention a guitar. Though Salyut was designed to last 18 months, it continues to function thanks to on-board repairs...
...story as old as Olympus, and it provides Harryhausen with the opportunity to work his stop-motion magic. The creatures he animates are wonders of laborious craft and individual character. They move like demons and dragons and homunculi out of the dark sleep of the past...
...least, every inmate should be taught to "read, write, spell and do simple arithmetic." He asked: "Without these basic skills, what chances does any person have of securing a gainful occupation?" He also proposed that vocational training be expanded for longer-term prisoners and that language and craft courses be mandatory. Sentences, he suggested, could be shortened for those inmates who "cooperate by learning...