Word: craft
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Inspired by the welded works of Picasso and Gonzalez. Smith followed their work in the journal Cahiers d' Art while pursuing his own experiments in non-representational sculptural forms. Always fascinated by the technical craft of sculpture as well as its form, he studied European sculpture closely, even analyzing fragments of ancient Greek statuary...
What is the penis which is spoken of besides a detached wooden pole created in the craft shop? Does it have any greater purpose than mock ejaculation? Where does this penis disappear to after it gets dressed up in the plastic sheath and before it disrobes? Do we hear of the partner who is the receptacle for the male tool and his or her feelings about the act? Do we inquire why people are having sex or search for an understanding of any reason behind...
...provide school-to-work apprenticeships for the non-college-bound workers and vouchers for the unemployed to spend on retraining. Next we need to make work pay for those at the bottom by expanding the earned-income tax credit and raising the minimum wage. And finally, we need to craft a new social compact between labor and management, one that gives workers on-the-job training as well as a share in productivity gains. This is our agenda, and it's the only one of the three that makes sense for America. ROBERT B. REICH Secretary of Labor Washington...
...Atlantis hurtled toward Mir today, a Canadian astronaut performed some high altitude construction to prepare for the docking. "Chris Hadfield pulled the five-ton docking module out of the payload bay of the shuttle and, with a fifty-foot crane, maneuvered it onto the top of the shuttle craft," says Hannifin. "All this at 17,500 miles per hour and 250 miles above the earth. It's unprecedented in terms of pulling off a giant construction project in space...
...nothing else, the modest gesture attested to a spirit of grudging but determined compromise that seemed to pervade the first week of talks at Wright-Patterson. Perhaps that spirit stemmed from the Balkan leaders' recognition that this was probably their best and last foreseeable chance to craft peace. Or maybe it was owing to the tremendous diplomatic and military prestige America has staked on the conference's outcome. Whatever the reason, despite efforts to ratchet down expectations, a case can be made that an agreement is getting tantalizingly closer. There are many caveats. Signing abortive peace deals that...