Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the makers of this year's new situation comedies didn't innovate. They invented the instant rerun. NBC's The Debbie Reynolds Show, for example, is an instant rerun of I Love Lucy, and small wonder; it is the handiwork of Lucy Producer Jess Oppenheimer. The only reason Debbie doesn't scheme to get into show business like her husband is that Debbie's husband Lew (Don Chastain) happens to be in the newspaper business. The only reason Debbie does not pose as a drummer auditioning for a band is that she happens...
That shape, and the ingenious engineering that made the project feasible, is the handiwork of Mexico's largest builder, Bernardo Quintana. His box tunnel literally floats like a ship on subsoil that is 80% water. The trick was to remove precisely the right weight of soil and water without undermining buildings alongside the right of way. To do so, Quintana first built sidewalls for a trench, then removed the muck between them through a complex electroosmosis process of his own devising. The roof to form a tunnel came last. By the time the whole subway is completed in November...
...long jags on vino, the crude labor racketeering. His work is the more up-to-date business of "washing" dirty money: making ill-gotten gains look legitimate by putting them through business firms that the mob has taken over. The new rulers have also learned to watch their Black Handiwork; to them, the older brother is an embarrassing antique, to be brought up to date or kept out of sight...
...sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with the blotter edge. All this time, his feet are planted wide beneath the desk on the plastic shield. Always he looks srtaight at me, never glancing at his geometric handiwork. Blink, damn, you, blink...
...bourgeois" Russia, Mao set out to purge his vast nation of 750 million people. His weapons were the People's Liberation Army and the youth of the Red Guards, whom he mobilized by closing down the schools. His targets were the party and governmental structures of China, the handiwork of President Liu Shao-chi, who became the all-purpose symbol of everything "revisionist" in China that Mao aimed to destroy...