Word: do-it-yourself
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...concern with local and private affairs shows up in other ways. On a typical Saturday morning, hordes of homeowners stagger out of local lumberyards with loads of paneling, paint and bathroom fixtures for some do-it-yourself remodeling. A surge in family outings has helped to produce a boom in downhill and cross-country skiing and in ice skating...
...America generally limits itself to unleavened texts that sell a few thousand copies each, but three years ago it brought forth a cheerful magazine-sized volume called The Jewish Catalog. Modeled after the countercultural Whole Earth Catalog, with a breezy text embellished by sprightly cartoons, the work was a do-it-yourself primer on Jewish customs and religious practices. It also turned into a runaway bestseller, currently in its tenth printing, with nearly 200,000 copies sold at $5.50. Inevitably, readers poured in new ideas. Inevitably, there had to be a sequel...
...Do-It-Yourself Animated Cartoon Film Program. Ever wondered what was on the other side of Central Square besides the MIT geeks with pocket computers and the NECCO factory? Well, there's a little hole in the wall up Main St. from Central Square that shows movie shorts anb animations. They're called Off the Wall, and in living memory they've never failed to string together anything less than brilliant shorts. It's a coffeehouse-art gallery with a screen up in the corner, and the subway rumbles underneath every 20 or so; and what with the various exotic...
...first meeting. They were really hitting each other, batting each other over the head with baseball bats and similar instruments of not-so-medieval mayhem. One of them, I saw, got a bloody ear. Instead of doublets made of cloth or gold, they were dressed in makeshift hockey uniforms and do-it-yourself helmets. In some ways it was the last straw. Like everything about Harvard,' it turned out to be much less elegant and much more painful than I expected...
...Salute to Congress" night, more than 100 Senators and Representatives, many accompanied by their wives, joined Air Force generals, who clustered around do-it-yourself exhibits. If a visitor filled out an AVCO Corp. card and diligently watched a slide program on strategic systems, he got a chance to win a set of matching luggage. Teledyne held a raffle to attract passers-by who might somehow have missed a leggy model dressed in short shorts of Air Force blue and a clinging blouse topped by five stars on each exquisite shoulder...