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...quietly honed her craft over the course of 17 years in Cambridge, breaking through nationally with a near-perfect sculpture in 1998: a team that went perfect in the Ivy League and upset top-seeded Stanford to become the first 16 seed to beat a top seed in a men's or women's NCAA basketball tournament...
...have the profile it possesses today. Different artists were considered important; different painters and sculptors exerted an influence on what was then the present. In some respects the art world was more tolerant, because the notion of an avant-garde was not yet all-encompassing. The ideal of high craft, of sheer manifest skill as a criterion of aesthetic success, had not yet been consigned to the trash can, and artists placed a value on drawing--however mistakenly they might sometimes have interpreted it--that was still very much alive...
Jerkins likes to get to know performers so he can craft songs that fit their personality (he had many a phone conversation with Toni Braxton before co-writing and producing her current Top 10 song He Wasn't Man Enough). He describes his music as "an R.-and-B. pop classical sound." His songs typically mix deep bass grooves with bright rivers of strings. Listening to a Jerkins song is like driving through the 'hood in a limo. Even his missteps intrigue. On the new Spears CD, he produced a remake of the Rolling Stones' classic...
...photographer Robert Capa distilled the secret of his craft into one sentence: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.'' Capa, who got one step too close when a landmine blew him up him in Indochina in 1954, lived by those words and in the process he forged a new photojournalism. His photographs were real, without the slightest scent of contrivance. They were too graphic and too close-up to be fake: when you see the subject's brain exiting the back of his skull, you know the shot is a one-time event, and that...
With these magnificent craft, the Norse searched far and wide for goods they couldn't get at home: silk, glass, sword-quality steel, raw silver and silver coins that they could melt down and rework. In return they offered furs, grindstones, Baltic amber, walrus ivory, walrus hides and iron...