Word: crafting
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Merwin emphasizes the value of form. "[It] makes you pay attention to language." He argues that all writing is autobiographical. "Even when you're telling a lie, the lie is your truth at the time." And he emphasizes poetry as a practised craft. "This idea of spontaneity," he says, "there's lot of silly talk about it...We go to the ballet and we want the ballet to be spontaneous, but you know that it comes out of years and years of very hard practice...
...most ways, though, Cheers and Seinfeld line up on opposite sides of TV's generational divide. Cheers is the product of a group of writers and producers who learned their craft in the 1970s at the MTM factory and created such hits as Mary Tyler Moore and Taxi. Their shows typically revolve around the workplace rather than the family, are filled with intricately crafted one- liners and feature ensemble casts of exaggerated comic types. By the end of its run, the Cheers laughpoints had become so familiar -- Woody's naivete, Carla's surly put-downs, mailman Cliff...
When one Harvard patrol car spotted the boat, the suspects maneuvered the craft to the other side of the river, but found another Harvard police cruiser waiting for them on that side, Harvard police Lt. John F. Rooney said. The two suspects then took off their pants and shoes and tried to swim to shore...
...years ago on the Washington University campus in St. Louis, Missouri, the second now under construction in San Francisco over the subterranean Moscone Convention Center. Building the Yerba Buena Gardens Visual Arts Center hasn't been at all easy for an architect accustomed to Japanese standards of construction. "American craft at this moment is very low," he says. "We really struggled in San Francisco to achieve a certain quality...
...move to iron forging originated with craft and folk art; it was "primitive," something apart from academic atelier practice, and it fitted perfectly into the general move among artists at the end of the 19th century to refresh art from hitherto unused sources. One of the first artists to imagine a link between iron forging and formal sculpture was a minor Spanish painter, Santiago Rusinyol, an impassioned collector of the ironwork in which the smiths of his native Barcelona had always excelled. "I think of those forges of old Barcelona," he wrote in 1893, "where instinct was set free. There...