Word: handiwork
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When the Nathan Marsh Pusey Underground Library opened its doors this week, some of its system-builders were there admiring their handiwork...
...Robert Crumb and Krazy Kat out of Dr. Caligari's Cabinet, this would be it. The Ruckus group are omnivores, infatuated with New York, and you are never allowed to forget it. Archie Peltier, an artist from Minneapolis, was responsible for most of the engineering, and his handiwork is impressive. People can walk up inside the Ruckus World Trade Center, looking at its "tenants," finally meeting a diminutive figure of the funambulist Philippe Petit walking the rope between the towers...
...When you're changing the content of a paper," says O'Neill, "it's important not to jar readers too much." The News continues to give big play to the handiwork of its 60 full-time photographers, some of whom still have a sharp lens for bikinied beauties. Says O'Neill: "We take pictures seriously." Girls, too. Said the headline on a story about New York Governor Hugh Carey's recent dinner dates with divorcee Anne Ford Uzielli: IS GUV IN LUV? IT'S NO DODGE, IT'S A FORD...
After approval of the technicians' resolution last week, Israeli leaders hailed the accord as a significant treaty binding the U.S. and Israel together to a degree that Presidents since Harry Truman's time have resisted. They were unhappy that Kissinger, in defending his diplomatic handiwork to Congress, appeared to take a less exuberant view...
Death Throes. While the anti-Spanish street demonstrations were clearly the handiwork of left-wing groups, a much broader spectrum was represented by the astonishing number of political leaders who damned the Spanish regime with rhetoric usually reserved for wartime enemies. Britain's Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, almost joyfully asserted that the Franco government was in its death throes, and Italian Christian Democrat Paolo Cabras branded the regime "a continuing curse against all free men." Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme described the Madrid government as so many "satanic murderers"; Reiulf Steen, chairman of Norway's ruling Labor Party...