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...these craftsmen is Saverio Pastor, who makes both oars and forcole in his workshop near the old Arsenal. Pastor learned his craft from the last maestro in Venice. "What I like is grabbing those huge trunks and bringing the forcola out of them," he says...
...very lucrative business. The official price for a ride is $60 for 50 minutes, but usually ends up closer to $75 for half an hour. "An artisan like myself gets paid with the satisfaction of doing something he likes, and doing it also in the way he likes," Pastor notes philosophically. "But at least in Italy, this comes at a heavy price...
...Pastor, 42, figures that it takes about four years to learn how to make a forcola, and about 25 to learn it well. In addition to their very practical use on boats, the elbow-shaped forcole are classy wooden sculptures and Pastor has both Mick Jagger and architect I.M. Pei among his clients. He says the crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat...
When America last left Dirk Been the youth pastor and small-time actor was thanking God for giving him the chance to appear on Survivor. More than a year later Been is still confined to the purgatory of regional theater, but now he's found a new outlet for his survival skills: advising teens how to endure the often solitary desert isle that is virginity and keep their eye on the ultimate prize of sex during marriage. The celebrity face for the burgeoning virginity movement, Been was also the main attraction at the three-day "Abstinence: Taking the World...
OTIS THOMAS Pastor who alleged daughter's affair with Condit recants. Sin: Filling tabloids in vain...