Word: crafting
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...suits. Though the students include aspiring designers of women's wear, jewelry and shoes, the school believes the men's-tailoring know-how and Italian alta moda culture that rub off will be useful for the careers of all of them. "This is a chance to actually see real craft in action," says RCA program director Wendy Dagworthy. "It's important that the traditional methods aren't forgotten...
...They’re tricks, not illusions,” he says. Founded in 2001, the Magic Society currently counts about half a dozen active members, each an expert in a different kind of magic. On Saturday, the group will enchant audiences both young and old with their craft in the annual Arts First Magic Show. The group has talent, Miller says, and past shows have been very successful. “It is always a lot of fun,” he says. Members lose and find coins and cards in ways that often take years to learn...
...challenging economic time,” Kelly A. O’Shea ’02 and Joshua M. Mendelsohn ’05, co-chairs of the Recent Graduates Committee, wrote in an e-mail statement. The e-mail from the Recent Graduates Committee—which was crafted with the help of OCS—was intended to encourage recent graduates to tap into OCS’s resources. Vacca said that alumni have not contacted OCS with more frequency this year than in past years, despite the economic downturn. She attributed this lack of change to graduates...
...highly constructive force. “I think rap has a really powerful influence, and it’s unfortunate that more rap lyrics are not about positive things, because one can really feel uplifted and empowered through music,” Lee says; personally, he prefers to craft songs, rather than battle. “It’s much easier to rap about negative things than positive things.”According to Shaket, however, freestyling is more about impressing listeners with clever wordplay than it is about disparaging an opponent. “One component is punch...
...health research and social policy, not just the social sciences and the humanities. She spoke about intersectionality as an all-encompassing approach that weaves together factors such as gender, class, race, and other determinants of health to help scholars better understand public health problems and enable them to better craft long-term solutions. But Hankivsky said that she commonly encounters resistance to this approach from other researchers who believe that it is too ambiguous to be applied to practical research questions. “Everyone acknowledges that intersectionality is on the table,” Hankivsky said...