Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wore my best clothes and my good perfume," she says, "because I knew he would still enjoy that." That is a tribute, with flair. No one is about to replace Balanchine or even approach his union of genius, constancy and craft. But it is good that someone is studying the map and traveling the routes and exploring the whole world of dance theater...
...Warner Communications (1983 revenues: about $3.5 billion), Newspaper and Magazine Publisher Rupert Murdoch filed court papers accusing the entertainment conglomerate of racketeering and fraud. The charges by Murdoch, who now owns a little more than 7% of Warner's voting stock, also named a rival suitor, Chris-Craft Industries, as a defendant. Murdoch wants the court to overturn a recent swap that would give Warner a 42.5% interest in Chris-Craft's television unit. That deal could block a possible Murdoch takeover...
...another demanding showcase: his occasional ABC series Viewpoint, a live discussion of journalistic ethics with comment from the public. The show focused on the conflicting demands of freedom of information and national security. Among Koppel's strengths is that he almost never indulges in special pleading for his craft. Although he is somewhat conservative in a business that Viewpoint participants lambasted as liberal, Koppel was careful not to interject his views...
...heart with equal dexterity. At film's end Kurys reveals that Marchand and Huppert are playing the director's own parents, 30 troubled years ago. Autobiography is often the excuse for retrospective vindictiveness, but Kurys is too mixed in her sympathies, too talented at her craft, to harbor such notions. She knows that filming well is the best revenge. -By Richard Corliss
DECISION REVERSED. For Christine Craft, 39, a former Kansas City TV anchorwoman who charged that in 1981 station KMBC, then owned by Metromedia, demoted her because of unhappiness with her appearance; by a federal jury that awarded her $325,000 in damages; in Joplin, Mo. Another federal jury voted Craft $500,000 in damages, but a judge threw that award out. Metromedia plans to appeal...