Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Power on! The craft it spun...
Pilot and craft oozed through tubes...
...resin importer, Conran displayed a passion for his craft at 14, when he excelled in metalwork and pottery at the exclusive Bryanston School, in Dorset. After studying textile design at London's Central School of Design, he free-lanced as a furniture maker before opening a home-furnishings store, called Habitat, in London in 1964. From its rows of white crockery to assemble-it-yourself pine beds and tables, Habitat offered products designed in the modernist tradition of the '30s, a kind of Bauhaus for our house: less is more, natural is better, simple is best...
...early '70s, though, a new agenda had been proclaimed. Melody and vocal craft were out, to be replaced by the hip virtues of energy and attitude. Male singer-songwriters were now the Rimbauds of rock and the women merely interpreters, trimming their expertise to the cut of the material. LaBelle or Bette Midler could coax a ballad to tears or go all raw in a rave- up, but that wasn't artistry, only dexterity without the signature of commitment. Meanwhile, FM radio's narrow-cast formats were herding black artists into the chic ghettos of Las Vegas...
...many checks and balances -- to make any headway at all.) The sociologist David Riesman likens the Constitution to the shallow keel of the national ferryboat, on which the passengers keep shifting from port to starboard and back again. One might also suggest the image of a trimaran -- a craft with three hulls (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) that is both stable and fast. Harvard's Paul Freund likes to think of the whole arrangement as a symphony orchestra or a jazz band...