Word: craft
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Ladybird, Ladybird opens one naked wound of the welfare dilemma. Should a loving mother be allowed to raise her children? But of course. And what if she is unable to protect them from her crippling weaknesses? Motherhood is a craft as well as a passion; it requires competence, ingenuity, common sense. "Children need more than love," a welfare worker testifies at one of Maggie's humiliating hearings. "They need support, and they need stability." In other words, the parent can't also be a child...
...Ford's urging, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency provided Schweitzer with the optical scanner. One of its case officers gave him a hurry-up course in spy craft: Schweitzer learned emergency codes and signals and roamed northern Virginia shopping malls, practicing how to shake off a tail and how to retrieve messages from dead drops. Cover stories were rehearsed in case he was compromised...
...stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes; he does it all himself, and his stove is usually covered with bubbling dye pots. Sebastian learned the craft from one one of its best- known practitioners on the West Coast, "Tie-Dye Annie...
...NASA X-31 fighter jet went down late Thursday in the desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California, after the pilot safely ejected. The experimental craft, which may be modified to become the first supersonic stealth fighter, completed two earlier flights yesterday without problems...
...into the network act. Warner's new WB Television Network, which premieres with a weekly two-hour block of sitcoms this Wednesday night, is one of two aspiring "fifth networks" making their debut this month. Next week the United Paramount Network -- a joint | venture by Paramount Television and Chris-Craft Industries, which owns a group of broadcast stations -- will introduce another starter network with four hours of programming on Mondays and Tuesdays. Both UPN and WB hope to expand to seven nights in the next several years, just as the Fox network has done after a similar start...