Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Matrons browse among $11,000 silk dresses and $5,000 crocodile handbags in the boutiques of Clothier Amen Wardy, an ex-Texan who is happy to send clients a "clothesmobile" staffed with a fitter. South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is equally posh. Yachts and other pleasure craft are so numerous that dock space in Newport Beach's harbor rents for as much as $300 a month for a 30-footer. Local Mercedes Dealer Jim Slemons has doubled his business in four years and stocks eight acres of cars. In a branch of his Beverly Hills boutique, Clothier Alan Austin...
...moment ignore the tattle, forget the blurbs and look at the pictures. The hubbub of controversy is stilled in the silence that these disquieting portraits demand. Imputations of Wyeth's motives are lost in the dark nexus where passion meets craft. Speculation on the course of his relationship with Helga turns to fascination with the development of graphic ideas and emotions in studies for final works. In the first sketch for Overflow, Helga is a thin, pretty, sleeping girl; the suggestive lines idealize her. And yet she breathes with youth and possibility. When the series is fleshed out, weight...
...Ridge off the coast of California and Oregon. Descending to 13,000 ft., it will enable scientists to get a close-up look at nodules of manganese and other metals that build up near geologically active breaks in the earth's crust. In the future, even more versatile undersea craft will be used to mine these minerals and bring them to the surface...
...commands from their human pilot and transmit pictures and data. It was an advanced ROV, the Gemini, that played a key role in the recovery of wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger. Designed to operate at depths as great as 5,000 ft., the 7,000-lb. ungainly craft uses hydraulic thrusters to maneuver like an underwater helicopter. It has two mechanical arms and is loaded with high-tech equipment. Its three cameras and two sonar systems give controllers on the surface a sweeping view of the depths...
More advanced craft are on the way. The Navy's National Ocean Systems Center in San Diego is developing ROVs that operate free of a tether. These AUVs--autonomous underwater vehicles--will be programmed for missions before they are dropped overboard. "The next step," says Howard Talkington, head of NOSC's engineering and computer science department, "is to do away with the umbilical cord and operate the ROV completely in a robotic manner...