Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scale abstract paintings, including several diptychs. In them, Bush explores color and paint texture, and the result is a lively and captivating compilation. A number of these pieces have been displayed individually at the Triptych Student Gallery over the past year. But the viewer may better appreciate Bush's craft here, because when several of her works are presented together one can grasp their relation to each other...
Ferrer joined TIME in 1963 and soon earned a reputation as one of the magazine's masters of editing. It is a talent he has shared generously over the years, leading many a neophyte writer through the intricacies and nuances of his craft. Says one writer: "Even when you think there isn't room to improve a story, Joe can make it better." Since overseeing TIME's coverage of the 1988 Olympics, Ferrer has worked closely with Prager in nurturing TIME International's growth as well as managing the complex logistics of 10 different editions each week...
...disturbing ones. The most heartening surprise is that losses have been so low. White House officials had braced themselves for the destruction of 100 or more American planes in the first few days: the actual figure lost in combat through the first 17 days was 15, plus seven allied craft. The principal reason, according to Schwarzkopf, is that the allies have so seriously crippled the Iraqi air-defense system that Baghdad has given up all attempts to exercise central control: every antiaircraft and missile battery is on its own trying to track and intercept allied raiders. Then there...
Eager to tune in the overseas news, Americans bought shortwave radios and small portable TVs. Bookstores were jammed, their customers snapping up almost anything about Saddam and the Middle East. In Arlington, Va., Roy's Hobby & Craft Shop was selling the new $16 board game, Kuwait War. Superstitious types were buying crystals and such books as Nostradamus and Armageddon, Oil and the Mideast Crisis...
...campaign will continue and perhaps intensify for days or even weeks, employing craft ranging from Apache helicopters to B-52s and all sizes in between. Once the U.S. and allied forces have won complete control of the skies -- at week's end they were close but not quite there -- they are likely to hammer ever harder at such targets as supply lines and troop concentrations...