If lucid writing is the sign of a moral state, it's the moral state of hard work, keener effort, acquired craft — a desire to communicate rather than intimidate, to have fun with a fellow-mind rather than bully a disciple.
Anheuser-Busch first made news for acquiring a craft brewery in 2011 when it purchased Chicago's Goose Island Brewery, and it has since also acquired stakes in Oregon's 10 Barrel Brewery and Washington's Elysian Brewery.
News Corporation is acquiring Chris-Craft and BHC, which owns very-high-frequency and ultra-high-frequency TV stations.
News Corporation would prefer to not pay such an amount to Saban just now, because the Murdochs have already committed themselves to acquiring Chris-Craft Industries, a television station company, for $3.5 billion.
Westermann acquired his craft while at sea and his sculpture descends from nautical arts like scrimshaw and ships in a bottle.
"Our revised forecast assumes a continuing weak advertising environment for the rest of the calendar year balanced by stringent cost-cutting across all of our businesses and the addition of earnings from the newly acquired Chris-Craft stations".
Ask the store how they acquired the crafts.
Acquiring the Chris-Craft name, which was still owned by Mr. Siegel, was next.
While it would be foolish to proclaim that Bach and Parker are greater than Beethoven and Coltrane, it is true that Beethoven and Coltrane are easier to imitate (not to mention teach), simply because acquiring the essentially untheatrical craft of Bach and Parker is harder than that of the later, more theatrical masters.
She immersed herself in the craft world, acquiring and adapting fine techniques, and became "addicted to a show on the Do It Yourself Network, 'Sew Much More".' (An exhibition of the multiple is at Peter Blum Gallery, 99 Wooster Street, SoHo, through Nov. 13, while the original will be on view along with other works at Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th Street, Chelsea, beginning on Thursday).
