Word: crafting
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Mendes, a compact, tousle-haired man with a boyish lack of pretension, graduated from Cambridge and had a pair of shows on the West End (London Assurance and The Cherry Orchard) by the time he was 23. He later spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, developing a craft free of theatrical folderol. "You learned how to do Shakespeare with two tables and four chairs," he says. "Theater is not about illustrating, not about decorating. It's about building images from the inside out. That's frightening for actors. They can't blend into the scenery...
...that reason, Earth's defenders, if they have the luxury of time, would prefer to send a robot craft to rendezvous with a threatening asteroid and determine its composition and mechanical strength before dispatching a nuke to the scene. Physicist Edward Teller suggests that this is what we should do, just for practice, when XF11 passes far from Earth two years from now. Other defensive plans being bandied about at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national labs involve more exotic devices, such as neutron bombs or netlike arrays of interconnected tungsten balls...
However, as the album hits the mid-way point, the immaturity of Rebekah's craft quickly starts to show. "Keep It a Secret," with its plea from a hanger-on girlfriend to her ex-boyfriend, jars the senses with its awkward lyrics, stiff music and pitiable subject material. Unfortunately, "Keep it a Secret" is only the seventh track on the album. The rest of the album continues with a series of embarrassing failures. It becomes obvious that Rebekah has either not been at her craft for a very long time or has not yet pursued it with enough vigor...
...become more confident and aware--indeed, more fully understanding of her sexual identity, the trauma she has endured and the pain she has inflicted upon others. Similarly, Terry's metamorphosis from the brash, omniscient film critic to a journalist coming to grips with his craft--one who wishes to mold the direction of his career--works because it is so human a change, one to which the reader may very well have access through either personal or shared experience...
...wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...