Word: crafting
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...condescending attitude didn't make Singleton popular with his fellow film students, many of whom found him "arrogant" and "too intense." His professors, however, were won over by his determination to master the elements of structure, dialogue and character development that go into the craft of a good screenplay. "In his freshman year I wouldn't have predicted his success, but John used this program," says Margaret Mehring, who recently retired as head of the writing program. "He was driven to communicate certain ideas, and he was not about to take no for an answer." By the time he graduated...
...Hollywood career. He recalls that when he first met Coppola, the older director was screening Jean Cocteau's Orpheus in an attempt to learn how filmmakers achieved special effects in the days before high-tech computer graphics. "What real filmmakers do is they study films, they study their craft," Singleton observes. "No matter how much success they encounter, they are always in the process of studying." Singleton himself watches at least one film a day, a practice he equates with taking vitamins. "Nobody is an expert at filmmaking," he says. "Anyone who tells you he is, is lying...
...based on a nautilus shell, Bower, 1980. Its wooden web is as precise as the skeleton of an aircraft wing and yet is imbued with a promise of shelter: one would be happy to crawl inside it and rest. With this piece, Puryear's desire for an eloquence of craft and his interest in the metaphorical relations between architecture and sculpture were fulfilled early. He seems to be that contemporary rarity, a wholly integrated artist -- in short, the real thing, and a figure of undeniable importance in American sculpture...
Note first that Clinton and Tsongas are new-breed Democrats. As they seek to craft a different relationship between government and the private economy, they challenge their party's traditional orthodoxy. In some ways (and especially when Tsongas touts his unabashed probusiness views), they sound like moderate Republicans, that nearly extinct species whose nostrums George Bush once championed. Tsongas enjoys a reputation as a hard-nosed economic truth teller, largely because he never tires of self-righteously describing himself in those terms. Clinton, on the other hand, suffers from what Mario Cuomo calls the "dumb-blond syndrome...
...other scenarios face obstacles that seem only marginally more surmountable. Most political consultants, media advisers, pollsters and other experts qualified to help craft a winning campaign have already signed up with one of the present candidates. A late starter consequently would be hard- pressed to throw together an effective organization. That goes double for fund raising, which has become critical in an era when the winning candidate is often the one who can afford to buy the most TV time. Proportional representation cuts two ways: it could keep a late starter from winning the lion's share of the delegates...