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...literally dies of fright. A friend crashes while testing a new plane, and Waldo is permanently grounded for buzzing the crowd that gawks at the man's death by fire. In the end there is nothing left for Waldo but the ultimate commercialization of his love for his craft: stunt-flying in a Hollywood war movie. There, ironically, he finally gets his chance to fly against Kessler, and, by turning a fake dogfight into the real thing, to pass into legend himself...
...response to my own tremulous assault upon the unsuspecting young at the Crimson sharpens my belief that suffering the uncertainties of embarking upon new seas and mastering a fractious new craft together can only benefit...
...obvious that through photography she has found a sense of purpose and identity that had eluded her in all her previous pursuits. Nonetheless, the impression of Dorfman one is finally left with is of a woman who is still insecure and unsure of herself, who came to her craft late and had to struggle to master it psychologically and technically...
...Japan Society's current exhibition in New York, "Tsutsumu-the Art of Japanese Packaging," should not be missed. Organized and chosen by the Tokyo designer Hideyuki Oka, it consists of 221 packages, ranging from sake bottles to wrappings for candied papaya. All the designs have a long craft history, and some are very old indeed: one type of wooden container, tied together with strips of bark and used for carrying the raw fish on vinegared rice known as sushi, has been continuously made in Nara prefecture for more than a thousand years. But everything in the show...
...profound religious devotion pervades all of Messaien's compositions. Through superb craft, he communicates this to us in the most vivid terms. As the music slowly ascends at the sublimely peaceful ending of the Quartet, we are drawn willingly with it toward Messaein's mystic vision...