Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christine, his latest novel. King chooses to make horrible the centerpiece of American life, the automobile. Arnie Cunningham, the archetypal nerd, sees a rusted-out '58 Plymouth Fury sitting on the street one day and falls in love. He's handy with tools and decides to fix it up. Naturally, he gets skinned on the deal by the crazy old misanthrope who sells him the car, but he carts the wreck off, finds a garage where he can keep it, since his parents refuse to let him park it in front of their house, and begins to work...
...rocks more and more violently, and finally falls over, the repetition becomes unbearable. Yet the play also has a peaceful quality which, when juxtaposed against the underlying suicidal throbbing, stimulates the imagination. Although the director provides little in the form of lighting or props on which to fix the eye, Beckett gives us much to think about...
...political base of the EMS evaporated with the demise of Giscard D'Estaing. The implicit aims of the system set up when Franco-German policies were converging now seem outdated. Despite the temporary fix, the shadow of a fracture icons...
Joan Didion's talent thrives in hot places: Southern California, Hawaii, Mexico and the Central America of her novel A Book of Common Prayer. She finds flowers of evil where most people see posies, and she can fix a place or a character with some of the sharpest prose in contemporary American writing...
...money alone could not solve Chrysler's problems. When lacocca arrived, he found management in disarray. Executive responsibilities were ill defined, and there were few of the sophisticated financial tools needed to keep track of operations. The quickest fix lacocca knew was to hire people who understood the same system he did: other Ford executives. Some were called out of retirement, others were wooed away and enlisted with lacocca for the challenge of engineering a turnaround. Today the four top officers are Ford alumni: lacocca; Vice Chairman Gerald Greenwald; Harold Sperlich, president of North American automotive operations; and Executive Vice...