Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just been laid off as a mechanic at a paper mill in Hamilton, Ohio, and he never wanted to face such hard times again. Now he is undecided about signing up for another tour of duty in 1981. "I like my job," says Loman, a B-52 air craft mechanic. "I don't want to get out. But I've got to go where the money is to make a living for my family...
...does narrate many amusing anecdotes. In one, a Nixon aide phones Elliott at home soon after the Watergate break-in on an issue of considerable urgency: changing Julie's magazine subscription. In this work, at least, Elliott chooses not to say much about the nature of his craft, his era or his inner workings. Mostly he reports what happened, as he saw it, ever the good newsman and genial raconteur...
...shots. Said Werth: "At first we couldn't see a thing, but the air cleared for several minutes and then there was the mountain and the huge plume heading up into the sky." Photographer John Barr was riding a National Guard helicopter during an air search, when the craft suddenly banked. "I was right in the doorway," said Barr, "and a sudden gust blew my glasses off. Some day maybe they will be found down there on the rim of Mount St. Helens...
...month tide of refugees is hardly abating. Last week 18,000 arrived, and there are still some 500 American boats at the Cuban port of Mariel, held there by the Cuban authorities until they decide who should be piled aboard. The overcrowded craft are often ordered to depart at night now, making the 110-mile journey even more dangerous. The estimated death toll of refugees so far: at least 25. "Mother Nature has been kind to these people," said one Coast Guard officer. "Only good weather has prevented a real disaster...
Linking the two men ever closer as mentor and student, surrogate father and son, brothers in Christ, Playwright Davis fashions a glowing parable on the indivisibility of love. At the apex of his craft, O'Shea could enter an actor's Hall of Fame with this one performance. Mettlesome, high-strung, bursting into a boy's wounded tears or unlaced laughter, Roberts' Mark is a worthy foil. But perhaps the most exciting find of the evening is the directorial debut of Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. Subtly and surely, she weaves a mantle of sentiment without sentimentality...