Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a part of power-pop band The Semantics, they've toured with Shania Twain, Pat McGee, Amy Grant and Janis Joplin to get a foothold in the music industry, they've jammed with Ben Folds for fun. And then they retire to their living rooms in Alabama to craft their solo pilot over four meticulous years, which they subsequently drop off at the major labels with a rakish take-it-or-leave-it attitude until Giant Records snaps it up. As a result, they make music that's informed and intelligent, yet independent and fresh. That's Will Owsley...
...environment, which creeps into the stories and suffuses them with significance but never suffocates them. And in stories that address a limited geographical area and a limited range of settings, and which draw from the same source of tragedy, it is one of the strongest tributes to Proulx' craft that the human characters, and their various tragedies, remain discrete and distinct. Perhaps there is one common tension, the big sky pushing down with an almost unbearable weight, but each of the protagonists stands or falls alone...
WORLD BUILDING The so-called God games turn kids into master builders. They can craft working metropolises--from sewers to skyscrapers--in SIM CITY 3000 or build empires to rule the world over 5,000 years of history in CIVILIZATION: CALL TO POWER, the latest and greatest in the popular Civ series. A taste of simulated despotism never hurt anyone...
There is a lot of work in precious metals--reliquaries, chalices and other kinds of liturgical equipment. The reliquaries were done at the highest pitch of craft, mostly by goldsmiths whose names have not survived. A modern eye is more apt to enjoy the spectacle of the concentrated, disciplined labor that went into building a tiny sarcophagus out of gold and rock crystal to house a brown bit of human tissue that may or may not have been part of St. Vitus, or a supposed rag off the "seamless robe" worn by Christ at his Crucifixion. Seven hundred years...
...Katz, more and more parents are wrangling with tough questions: how to handle the external aspects--the stares, comments and other public behaviors that arise when families look different--and perhaps more important, how to handle the internal--the need to affirm the family bond while helping a child craft a strong racial sense of self...