Word: craftworker
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Instead, we're back to the jaded, controlled craftwork of the mid '70s, admittedly with a twist of new-wave perversity to keep the listener interested. The Pretenders, one-part American and three-parts British, are one of a half-dozen new bands sporting a tight, high-voltage sound but displaying little of the spontaneous vitality which gives the pop-rock genre a reason for being...
...could call their own. Only two art activities were left to them. Well brought-up girls could do small watercolors, which were considered signs of "accomplishment," like a precarious tinkling on the pianoforte. Poorer girls, on the other hand, could make craft objects like pots or quilts. But such craftwork was also by reigning definition not high art. Since women's talent had been deprived of a social context in which it could make art, there was no problem in branding it as minor by nature...
Most successful in this field is Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C., launched nine months ago under Smithsonian auspices and currently supported largely from local donations. It has drawn more than 40,000 visitors, with shows of African artifacts and craftwork borrowed from local embassies and even an African food fair. "This place," says Director John Kinard, 30, a native of Washington's inner city, "has brought people who wouldn't otherwise be caught dead in a museum." Shows are often scheduled on the basis of requests found in the suggestion box, giving local residents, as Kinard points...
...roughly marked the peak of the fall book season. In that time appeared about 50 novels, representing the labor of about 50 man years. TIME has reviewed the best seven. The remainder have given employment to hundreds of publishers' minions. They will give diversion to thousands of readers. Craftwork rather than Art, they fall into several time-smoothed categories...