Word: fixer
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...very center of all the action. His is, in any case, a poor fiefdom, a small hunk of downtown territory in an unnamed city that is clearly Los Angeles. Cooper holds court in bars, keeps a small, dusty office in which even the sunlight is encrusted. He is a fixer and a mover: he puts up bail bond, regulates the steady flow of petty crime in the neighborhood. Cooper also has eyes to expand his holdings on behalf of some higher-ups and take over a whole block of abandoned warehouses, where hijacked goods can be left to cool...
...Felix the Fixer done it again? No one can yet say for sure, not even Felix G. Rohatyn, the 46-year-old Austrian-born partner in the New York investment-banking firm of Lazard Frères & Co. But Rohatyn has at least got the machinery started for a complicated and inventive deal between Textron Inc. and Lockheed Aircraft Corp. that will add new luster to Lazard Frères' reputation as masters of the art of rescuing faltering corporate giants by arranging mergers, reorganizations or financial aid. Says one Rohatyn admirer in the treasurer's office...
...unusually effective in getting things done. Born into a well-to-do Paris family, Chirac began his rise to power in 1962, when at the age of 30 he landed a job on the staff of Pompidou, then De Gaulle's Premier. Chirac's talents as a fixer and arranger made him indispensable to Pompidou, who fondly called him "my bulldozer." He included him in the small circle of staffers with whom he would share a cocktail...
...prepare mentally for troubleshooting an engine. Briefly, motor maintenance requires a good deal of quiet concentration so that the underlying principles of the engine are allowed to fill the gap between the object (engine) and the subject (mechanic). A Zen monk would say that under such conditions, the fixer and the fixed are no longer opposing objects but one reality. The author is more practical. Among other things, he suggests that if you cannot fix the bike yourself, at least avoid garages where the mechanics play the radio...
Faulty interpretations can create much disappointment, as in the movie version of his novel The Fixer, "Horrible. That thing went to five different writers. Edward Albee was one of them but he would only do it if he had full say over it. Dalton Trumbo finally wrote the screen play and he's a hack. The film should have been done as a sort of fable, in black and white. Instead, it was all galloping Cossacks and dancing girls: an overdone fake. And that sickens a writer--to see his book faked...