Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marina del Rey, home to 10,000 pleasure craft, a young single man was smitten by a young single woman. His occupation: photographer. Her occupation: secretary-actress. Several rounds of tequila preceded her confession that she liked to get "a little kinky" sometimes. The photographer had no personal experience with kinkiness but lied that he had. At her apartment, she suggested that she get undressed and that he tie her up and take some pictures...
...Sprinklers on the launch pad immediately flooded the pit with several thousand gallons of water, dousing the blaze in less than five minutes. Half an hour later, led by Judy Resnik, 35, who was scheduled to be the second American woman in space, the six astronauts emerged from the craft, some looking grim and weary, others with grins and wisecracks. To their bitter disappointment, they were told that they might as well head home for the weekend. Admitted Thomas Utsman, director of shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center: "This will not be a one-or two-day turnaround...
...even be tempted to take a shortcut and sweeten material by merging people into composite characters, placing them in colorful circumstances or concocting pithy remarks. But such fabrications, however faithful they may seem to the spirit of a reporter's observations, are violations of the ethics of the craft. Thus, when New Yorker Writer Alastair Reid, 58, admitted last week that he had indulged repeatedly in such sleight of hand, he prompted a well-deserved storm of criticism, and an apology from the prestigious and generally scrupulous New Yorker. Said the magazine's editor, William Shawn: "He made...
...since France's Prince de Talleyrand, who survived the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte and the restored Bourbon monarchy, has a statesman pursued his craft with such success under so many different masters. Gromyko has served the Soviet state through all of its tortuous transformations, from Stalinist despotism to the vicissitudes of the Andropov and Chernenko years. He has dealt with nine U.S. Presidents, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 14 Secretaries of State. Says a diplomat who meets often with Gromyko: "He remembers not because he read a brief or a book, but as often as not because...
Compared to the usual lot in Albany and among Party brass. Cuomo is better than most. He has his heart in the right place. But if he hopes to resuscitate the Democratic party and once again craft a liberalism that is a valid option in a post-technological society, he must do more than think nice thoughts...