Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Popescu's two-hour, 300-mile hedgehop from the Rumanian town of Arad to Feldbach, an Austrian village ten miles inside the Austro-Hungarian frontier, in a single-engine Antonov2 biplane was almost flight-plan perfect. He loaded his passengers on a craft designed for no more than 14 people, then flew 150 ft. above ground across Rumania and Hungary into Austria. After dodging high-tension wires, mountaintops, watchtowers, even barbed-wire fences, he made a bumpy landing in a rain-soaked cornfield, where Farmer Herbert Kaspar, 50, was working. Reported Kaspar: "For a while there was no sound...
...sense, it was Sanjay's overriding impatience that cost him his life. After his mother's 1977 defeat, he earned a commercial pilot's license and an instructor's rating. Early last week, however, he began to fly a craft for which he had no rating: a small American-built Pitts S-2A biplane, designed for aerobatics. On Sunday morning, June 22, he flew the plane with a test pilot at the Delhi Flying Club. In the afternoon he took it on a series of joyrides with his wife Maneka, his mother's personal secretary...
Dunayev, like most senior Soviet journalists, did not receive any formal academic training in his craft. He graduated from Moscow's college-level Institute of International Relations, and began his career at Trud, the daily newspaper of the Central Council of Trade Unions. In eleven years there, he moved up from copy boy to columnist. After two years as a radio commentator in Moscow, Dunayev was sent to London for five years as a broadcast correspondent. He returned home in 1972 to assume his present position with Moscow television...
Paradjanov's more cautious colleagues have referred to him as "kind of mad." It may be equally delirious for Westerners to demand of today's Soviet film makers that they bring to their craft the passionate recklessness of their predecessors. Revolutionary fervor, like first love, passes quickly; in the long run, any marriage of art and the state demands fidelity and fealty. Official Soviet cinema is settling into middle age with all the virtues of a Chekhovian "good wife": it is handsome, thoughtful, often charming and, above all, discreet about the master's excesses and failings...
...unequivocally eventful, a circus of family entanglements, class conflicts, foreign and domestic adventures, sexual and criminal escapades, satire about life in literary London and semiliterate Hollywood. Shapiro is not the sort of writer to sit around massaging sexual guilts or nursing orchids of sensibility. He knows his craft but would rather talk about hockey, the Louis-Conn fight and the Spanish Civil...