Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognize these big Hollywood names: Joe Eszterhas, Shane Black, Jeffrey Boam? No? You may know them better by their products: Flashdance, Lethal Weapon, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Eszterhas, Black and Boam are practitioners of an essential yet mostly invisible movie-making craft: screenwriting. While actors, directors and even producers gain fame and seven- figure salaries, screenwriters have traditionally been the Rodney Dangerfields of Hollywood...
...unscheduled flight over the Caribbean, the information will be relayed - to the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Center in Key West, Fla. An Air Force fighter will follow the suspect plane, and officers of the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration will be alerted to the mystery craft's course so that they can be on the scene when it lands. Says Air Force Colonel Jack Lenz, the OTH project manager: "Only suicidal smugglers would try to beat this...
...launch took place that broke all the rules. A diminutive rocket named Pegasus, built by a Virginia-based entrepreneurial firm called Orbital Sciences, dropped from under the wing of a B-52 and carried into orbit a small 200-kg (450-lb.) satellite, one of a new type of craft that promises to bring space history full circle. Called lightsats, the new payloads pack as much function into a few hundred kilograms as satellites many times their size. At $8 million a launch, they could open space to new military and industrial uses...
...working to craft a tax package that can pass," Vellucci said...
...long passages of dialogue than they used to. And you can't talk to me or to anybody my age in which you don't hear a sort of old fart's moan about the fact that it's much more difficult now for kids to learn the craft of acting. They don't have the opportunity. They don't get it in TV or films. I think it's important that actors do films, but I think they're way ahead of the game if they've got a theatrical background. Actors like ourselves should be able to reproduce...