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Kreindler’s first air disaster case came in 1952 when a National Airlines DC-6 crashed in Elizabeth, New Jersey. For the case, Kreindler worked at an airplane maintenance shop to learn the design of the plane. The knowledge he gained from that experience helped him craft a propeller-failure theory that persuaded a jury to award what was then the highest award in an air crash suit to his client...
...ambiguous” (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found in an account of Mailer’s apprenticeship to his craft at Harvard); and the wrenching formulation, “those who want experience, learn to live; those who don’t, write...
More than being able to craft catchy songs, Dougan’s sensibility as a classical composer gives the album a welcome depth. On the appropriately titled “Instrumental,” he does away with both beats and vocals, leaving the listener with an atmospheric—if harmonically unadventurous—composition for strings...
...homespun craft of needlepoint is getting awfully chic. According to the Craft Yarn Council of America, about 38 million women practice a yarn-based hobby, up from 34 million in 1998. Many of them these days are stylemakers who, instead of cross-stitching throw pillows, are creating fashion accessories such as belts, purses and bracelets, often decorated with their names or cutesy icons like ladybugs or mushrooms. Stitched pansy purses designed by needlepoint doyenne Erica Wilson were featured in designer Anna Sui's latest runway show, inspiring trendsetters to take up the needle. Sales of needlepoint purse kits...
...designated only as “Woman,” “Woman #1,” “Woman #2,” etc., giving no further description of a character except their designation as a woman. This open-endedness allows actresses and directors to craft who these characters are, as long as they fall within the definition of woman. But what definition of woman? Such a question may seem odd to people not involved in gender studies, but there are many ways to define a woman—such as chromosomes, a vagina, breasts, a uterus...