Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular nighttime soap opera, Dynasty, ended last week's episode with typical edge-of-the-seat melodrama. In a scuffle aboard a private plane, Blake Carrington and Daniel Reece (John Forsythe and Rock Hudson) accidentally knocked the pilot unconscious, sending their craft hurtling toward the ; mountains below. Their fate, in the manner of TV cliffhangers, rested in the hands of the network...
...snazziness and corporate profligacy, Detroit has not equaled itself since. The introduction of a sporty new sedan, orchestrated by Iacocca, typified the wonderful wantonness. In 1966 he sailed dozens of Lincoln-Mercury dealers to the Virgin Islands, where after a meal on a beach at sunset, an amphibious landing craft thrashed ashore. Out onto the sand popped a brand-new white Cougar driven by Singer Vic Damone, who proceeded to croon...
...write off interest costs and virtually all other expenses associated with the purchase and can further slash his taxes by fully depreciating his boat over five years. Even the price of air fare to and from the mooring place can sometimes be deducted as a cost of inspecting the craft...
...jubilation has been made all the more exuberant by the recollection that the paper has repeatedly seemed likely to die. A money loser, the Times was shut down for a year in 1978 and 1979 by striking craft workers, who opposed the installation of modern technology. In October 1980, faced with mounting deficits, then Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press...
This sorr of condescending professor talk limits Postscript's appeal, and unfortunately so. Eco rather interesting questions about literature and the craft of writing in general, but it's no fun to watch an author be little must of his audience. If you read The Name of the Rose on your lunch break at the assembly line, you might find its Postscript a had insulting. But no matter, if you go to Harvard and level The Name of the Rose, you'll get a kick out of Postscript...