Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most Troubled Craft The space station Mir, once the crown jewel of Russia's space program, fell on hard times this year as a string of mishaps threatened to shut the ship down for good. But Mir stayed aloft. And NASA, which has been sending U.S. astronauts to the station since 1995, plans to stand by its Russian partner...
...doesn't ratchet her I.Q. down 15 or 20 points to make the boys feel better. She refuses to play the little girl or the doomed diva. Or the perfect woman either, for she knows that flourishing at the end of this millennium is an art and a craft, and not many are up to it. But she has the grit to try. She attracts men, and appeals to other women, by being her own complicated self. Determined woman, staunch friend, strong mate: the sensible siren...
...infant, Helen moved to Manhattan with her parents, director Gordon Hunt and Jane, a photographer. "I wasn't that movie-obsessed," Helen recalls. "We were at the theater all the time." For years she was just another out-of-work actress taking classes and studying her craft. Then she turned nine and got a job, as the blond pioneer girl in the 1973 TV movie Pioneer Woman. Even then, Helen had the mile-high forehead, perfect oval face and watchful stillness of a Vermeer maiden. "It was very strange," she says. "Somebody forgot to tell...
...Writing is not an art; it is a skill, a learned craft. I am merely a craftsman, a recorder of people's experiences," he said...
...needs to craft its foreign policy in Washington, not Tel Aviv," Veach said...