Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genial, bobble-head doll; he is a demanding actor immersed in his craft. "He'll put a spin on each take," says Oliver Stone, who cast Jones in JFK and in the forthcoming Heaven and Earth and Natural Born Killers. "He can deliver different pitches: slow balls, fastballs, curves, sliders." Stone says Jones is "not a party animal. He's reticent, taciturn." A crew member on The Client notes that Jones "won't talk much about personal things. But he talked to a friend of mine for an hour about Texas horny toads...
...alternative -- joking about it but meaning it too. His verse, unlike Hughes', was resolutely un-modernist; he clung to the notion that poems should be clearly written in everyday language and should avoid posturing and pretension at all costs -- though, in his hands, that left plenty of room for craft and eloquence. He steered clear of London and the literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when he was 55. He was a drinker and a jazz buff...
...obvious: sun, moon, animals, plants such as squash blossoms. But just as surely as in 17th century Dutch painting, every object is a symbol too. Like Native Americans themselves, jewelry fanciers feel power in a massive Navajo turquoise bracelet, transcendence in a kachina, or spirit, figure. The entire craft is devoted to good luck...
...matter. There is personality aplenty in Woo's editing and camera style. ! Here, you feel, is a moviemaker, a popular artist with an infectious joy in his craft. What Raimi calls Woo's "supercharged adrenaline" -- the reckless intelligence he applies to solving the most familiar action scenes -- is evident in each precise, superpotent frame. He could be a cleaner, leaner Sam Peckinpah, or Sergio Leone: the next generation. And in his best work, Woo is a critic and elegist of movie manhood. His Vietnam film, the amazing A Bullet in the Head, is an atrocity picture with a conscience...
...perfect pedigree in pilfering. Abandoned as a child, he was raised by a foster family that included two car-thieving brothers before becoming the Artful Dodger to the Fagin of Bucks County. After his arrest (and before fleeing), Wills told the FBI that he learned much of the craft as a teenager from John Palamarchuk, a 68-year-old former body-shop owner known to law enforcement as "One-Eyed." (His right eye socket, filled with a plastic orb, is barely open.) Wills, who did not own a driver's license, sometimes enlisted his mentor to rent the trucks that...