Word: fixit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mafia patois a mechanic is a hit man. The titular mechanic of this misshapen thriller is Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson), a name so bland that we must assume the producers were at pains to appease antidefamation groups of virtually every nationality. Bishop is a psychopathic Mr. Fixit, flawlessly efficient at doing in whoever has fallen out of favor with his employers. Emotionless, a loner, Bishop spends hours studying his quarry...
...cases and soothe the ruffled feathers of the fat cats and Pooh-Bahs. The position naturally invites allegations of mollycoddling business at public expense. But few who have held it have proved more controversial or more subject to charges of favoritism than Peter Flanigan, Richard Nixon's "Mr. Fixit" when it comes to powerful business interests...
...largest industrial firm. Except for a brief postwar fling at private enterprise, Cefis, who was trained as an economist, has spent most of his career working for ENI, the state-owned petroleum syndicate. Known as "The Ghost" because of his aversion to publicity, Cefis became the shadowy, indispensable Mr. Fixit at ENI. After he became ENI's president in 1967, he built a sound management team by breaking with ancient Italian tradition and wisely delegating authority...
...social ills are shallow compared to the potential of their 'untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn to respect each other. Think of Pauline Kael on Ship of Fools: "Original Sin Meets Mr. Fixit." As for recalcitrant Nazis or racists: Kramer only suggests slaughter...
...call him out when the aircraft arrives. Added attractions include an art gallery, a supermarket, a photo shop that makes instant poster-size enlargements, two hairdressing salons, three post offices, two music stores, a bank, an antique shop and a cheese market. There is also an all-purpose Mr. Fixit shop in which customers can have new heels put on their shoes, keys copied or initials engraved on jewelry. For $1, weary travelers can get a shower in a fully equipped bathroom presided over by a woman attendant whom French Poet Jacques Prevert has nicknamed "Notre Dame des Lavabos...