Word: handiwork
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...reckless as it is immodest. In 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, Britain's Anthony Burgess sets up a personal pantheon of later 20th century fiction; then, in Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby, he offers the latest sample of his own handiwork in that line...
...still spot some fine performances. Hawn unerringly registers Kay's every emotion with the wide-eyed intensity of a six-year-old; Christine Lahti is a delight as the tart cookie who lives next door; Holly Hunter shines as a brand-new war widow. With their devoted handiwork, the Swing Shift aircraft almost takes off. -By Richard Corliss
...count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife and her increasing tendency to garble phone messages. For Eleanor Zimmerlein, an Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn't saw a straight line." And for Chicago Office Clerk Eleanor Marzillo, it began with her husband's difficulty in shaving; first his trim mustache got bushier and bushier, then...
...perhaps the greatest liability of SALT II was its sponsorship. The treaty was the fruit of three Administrations' labors. Much of its contents was the handiwork of Henry Kissinger and his colleagues. The remainder was mostly an improvement on that core. But the signature on the bottom of the last page, alongside Leonid Brezhnev's, was Jimmy Carter's. So technical an agreement
Worse, at week's end the killer was still at large. He or she might or might not be insane, but either way was a coldly calculating planner. Said one investigator: "He is probably sitting back to admire his awful handiwork, savoring our frustration. The obvious fear is that if we don't catch him quickly, he will do this again, maybe with another product." Maybe some place other than the Chicago area too. In addition, authorities feared there might be "copycat" poisonings by deranged people looking for a perverted sort of glory. Said Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical...