Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sportsmen, unruined by his gifts or his fame, warm, grateful, ready to sign one more autograph when he was dog tired and overstretched. He ripened into the affable ABC commentator, the smooth corporate pitchman, even a plausible movie star. The legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg helped him learn the craft, but the art was innate. "He already is an actor, an excellent one," Strasberg said. "A natural...
...these excursions came show-business magic. Disney's handsome fantasies satisfied as master lessons in the storytelling craft. They rekindled the art and emotion of the studio's classic animation style; they showed Broadway what it had forgotten about integrating popular music into a potent story; and they reassembled the fragmented movie audience -- these are pictures all races and ages enjoy. Fifty years from now they will probably be enthralling the grandchildren of kids who thrill to Dumbo and other Disney relics today...
Graham Haddock, 77, then the Higgins plant superintendent, can still feel the tension of that June morning, even though the waterfront where he used to watch the landing craft take shape is home port to gambling boats and yachts today. "The news of the invasion came about the time we went to work," he recalls. "We wondered whether it was going to work or not. There was no feeling of victory at first. Not until the 10 o'clock radio news did we get confirmation that we had a toehold in Normandy. I got up and marked...
Taylor and his workers swung into action with steel tubing, wood, fabric, paint and wooden wings. By the spring of 1943 they had turned out 750 Waco CG- 4A gliders that would be towed behind C-47 transport planes, the silent landing craft for men and weapons in the farm fields behind the Normandy beaches. One G.I. had just stumbled ashore on D-day when he saw what he thought was a great cloud rising across the Channel and coming toward him. It was the first wave of U.S. gliders bringing in more troops and guns. As the news...
...affordable prices and didn't want Saddam brandishing weapons of mass destruction. Today the nightmare scenarios of nuclear-weapons proliferation and regional instability in Asia may soon be seen to justify a second Korean war. If so, the alliance required to prosecute that battle will be impossible to craft unless serious sanctions are imposed first -- and until they fail as miserably as their predecessors have...