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...family anger takes different forms. Pearl becomes a compulsive handyman. "All she wanted was to be allowed to get on with what mattered: calk the windows; weatherstrip the door. With tools she was her true self, capable and strong." Son Cody finds his outlet as a time-and-motion consultant. The richer he grows weeding out waste and inefficiency around the country, the clearer it becomes that time and motion are all he truly possesses. Daughter Jenny is a pediatrician who marries three times and buries herself in runny noses, diaper rashes and colic. There seems to be no line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eat and Run | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...most popular courses is "The Self-Confident Home Mechanic," designed to teach students how to repair light switches, calk pipes and fix appliances. One student, Blossom Gottlieb, 26, is taking the course so she and her husband can renovate their hot-dog stand in the seashore community of Cape May, N.J. Her mother-in-law Virginia, 60, is also enrolled because she rents out two summer cottages there. "It's impossible to get a plumber on July 4," she explains, "and the toilets are always stopped up on holidays." Another student, Pat Ortiz, enrolled because she has knocked seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Womanschool | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...good review, which I was sure was going to say the world of the play was so absurd it was Kafkaesque. When it didn't say that, I was so relieved I decided the review might be right, but that's not binding on you. If this is obsucre, calk it cup to exams. 8:30 at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: stage | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

Perfect Patcher. A rubber paste that sets in a few hours to long-lasting pliant rubber was put on the market by Devcon Corp. Uses: to calk or waterproof boats, insulate wires, or patch holes in shoe soles. Price: 98? for a 4-oz. tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Leaks and Arms. Other recent Japanese campaigns in China have had similar objectives. The occupation of Kwangchowan, a French-leased area, gave the Japanese a chance to build airfields to offset U.S.-operated fields in South China, but its main point was to calk the greatest chink in the South China blockade. In Shantung Province, one of the areas occupied by the invader in the first year of the war, the Japanese have in the past two months car ried on a campaign against Chinese guer rilla forces who had assisted in smuggling. Operations against the Chinese border from Burma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Japan Digs In | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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