Word: crafting
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...catamite. It was the lost soul of the postwar teen, glamourized for the movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important not only for what he represented but also for what he achieved: a delicacy that grounded his anger, a supple craft forged at the Actors Studio and on live TV dramas, a charisma that drew all eyes to him and the characters he created...
...National Governors' Association in Boston in which President Clinton appeared to waffle on the question of universal coverage, the political arm wrestling over health-care reform intensified in Washington. Democratic leaders of both houses met with Clinton late in the week to tell him they would work to craft a different but still universal program that could win a majority in both chambers. In effect, it was an abandonment of the Clinton plan. No details were released, but majority leader George Mitchell announced that "our plans will be less bureaucratic, more voluntary, and will be phased in over a longer...
...Tyson wasn't satisfied with that. Having pressured Puerto Rico to ditch the labeling requirement, the chicken giant struck for more. The Broiler Council began an attempt to craft new regulations even more favorable to the mainland producers. At a Feb. 18 meeting in San Juan attended by Puerto Rican officials and poultry-industry representatives, Tyson momentarily dropped the pretense that the industry group was doing the lobbying. While the Broiler Council had requested the session, records reviewed by TIME show clearly that it was a Tyson vice president, Mike Morrison, who described in detail the many rules Tyson wanted...
Hanks, 38 this week, is the actor who takes dangerous themes or recycled plots and, with his craft and decency, makes them esteemed hits. The rare flops (Punchline, The Bonfire of the Vanities) don't stick to him,and his past three films (A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia) have earned $310 million at the domestic box office. Now Hollywood routinely assigns its Missions Impossible to Captain Nice...
There is something inherently democratizing -- perhaps even revolutionary -- about the technology. Not only has it enfranchised thousands of would-be writers who otherwise might never have taken up the craft, but it has also thrown together classes of people who hadn't had much direct contact before: students, scientists, senior citizens, computer geeks, grass-roots (and often blue-collar) bulletin-board enthusiasts and most recently the working press...