Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warner Chairman Steven Ross did not wait for the Australian to make his next move. Two weeks ago, he struck up a partnership with Chris-Craft Industries that seemed tailor-made to thwart a Murdoch takeover bid. The agreement calls for Chris-Craft, a diversified New York-based manufacturer of boat engines, plastic products and chemicals, with fiscal 1983 revenues of $84.4 million and profits of $3.99 million, to acquire about 25% of Warner's stock. In return, Warner would gain a 42.5% stake in a Chris-Craft subsidiary that owns two television stations and interests in four others...
...Arthur Schlesinger, or any of the 150 people that Manchester has interviewed. But more often than not it is Manchester himself "When Jackie asked you to write an account of the President's last days and funeral...your literary agent, who was rightly regarded as the best in his craft, predicted that by then the public would have lost interest in Jack." Unnamed all the sources becomes Manchester, until the author's presence in the book becomes unbearable. Photos of Mrs. Kennedy reading Portrait of a Presidency do not help the situation very much...
...intellectual infancy as a passive, pacified fun sucker. The young audience that makes hits these days out of laser shows and locker-room frolics seems bored with the notion that the mind has a life too. And few moviemakers, even the smart ones, are choosing to exercise their craft for the benefit of anyone old enough to vote...
...whatever it was, would spread through the system and bring down all the ship's computers. Without a computer, even a John Young probably would not have been able to take Columbia safely out of orbit because of the complex sequence of rocket firings needed to control the craft's fiery plunge through the atmosphere...
...Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95). A small sailboat sits wrecked at the edge of a cliff. How did it get up there? An old salt describes the journey to a place where boats glide above the water like seagulls. Van Allsburg's dark, hypnotic illustrations follow the craft through massed clouds and starry evenings, until it crashes to earth with the surprise of a joke and the power of a folk tale...