Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrives are influencing American dining habits with their Continental nonchalance. They give a cursory glance at the bottom line on the bill, and seldom practice power lunching and power tripping. On a recent Wednesday, Manhattan's superswank Le Cirque played host to Richard Nixon, Publisher Malcolm Forbes and Chris-Craft Chief Herbert Siegel all at the same time. "They all looked at each other," recalls Italian Owner Sirio Maccioni. "Maybe they were thinking, 'Do I have the right table?' I could put Mr. (Giovanni) Agnelli (whose family controls Fiat) anywhere. Europeans might complain about the food, but not the table...
...from street smarts acquired on the Lower East Side and further back, in the shtetls of Eastern Europe; it took a ragman to become a Hollywood rajah. "They had grown up," wrote Film Historian Carlos Clarens, "in a trade where samples could be smelled, fingered and felt; they recognized craft when they saw it, and they respected it; rather than hoodwink the customer, they aimed to please." The moguls did not see themselves as artists, or the movies as art. Their job was to keep the assembly line rolling, in a factory called Hollywood...
...cause for suspicion, such as a discrepancy between the number of people who check in for a flight and the number who actually board, airlines may empty the plane and ask passengers to identify their bags. The object is to prevent terrorists from putting a bomb on the craft and then not boarding it, or from shipping arms to fellow terrorists at another airport...
...history, exceeded only by the 1977 collision of KLM and Pan American 747s in the Spanish Canary Islands that killed 582, and the 1974 crash of a Turkish DC-10 near Paris that left 345 dead. More alarmingly, however, the sudden and inexplicable plunge of the Air India craft had the earmarks of terrorism. "It is most likely a bomb," said Mike Ramsden, editor in chief of the aviation magazine Flight International. "A bomb is the most likely reason for a catastrophe, so sudden and complete, to an aircraft with a very fine safety record." Added a high-ranking...
...pilot hurled his rakish craft into a steep and punishing climb, high above the cheering audience and the aeronautics engineers busily jotting notes on clipboards. The plane almost stalled, but it managed to pull level before it swooped back home, scattering the judges as it buzzed their table, ducked under a chalkboard and finally slammed into the bleachers. The scene was not Edwards Air Force Base but Seattle's Kingdome, where fans usually cheer the flight of baseballs and footballs. The prototype was only 10 in. long, and its sortie of 16.26 seconds had just won the time-aloft event...