Word: handiwork
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...transformed 55 acres of mud, brambles and neglected tombstones into the world's most famous necropolis-Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif. Half of Hollywood is buried there, amid rolling lawns, splashing fountains, marble statuary, all of which proclaims that Death Can Be Beautiful. Eaton's handiwork evoked virulent attack (Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death) and savage satire (Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One). In fact, the reality of Forest Lawn defied parody...
...silk stocking. With infinite care, he winds the thread round and round a scrap of rubber until he has a ball about 9 in. in circumference. The boy's mother enters the room unnoticed and watches, frowning, while he wraps the ball tightly with adhesive tape, tests his handiwork with a couple of bounces off the floor. Crude, maybe even a little lopsided-but a fair facsimile of a baseball. The mother speaks sharply...
After that, he lived modestly, spending only enough funny money to get by, banking much of the rest. It was 1952 before the Bank of France first detected his handiwork, soon became so apprehensive about the size of the operation that they did not dare sound a general alarm for fear of triggering a national panic. ("Had they said something," Bojarsky later complained, "I would have stopped. But as they never did, I figured they just weren't interested...
...speaking at the University of California at Berkeley, someone inevitably brought up the subject of San Francisco's famed topless dancers. Preached Pike, in the spirit of the Song of Songs: "We must always be in a position of thanksgiving to God for the beauties of his handiwork...
Nearly everybody in the U.S. who shops in big retail chain stores, goes to the movies or flies by airline, sooner or later encounters the handiwork of that prestigious Manhattan partnership, Lehman Bros. The 116-year-old firm not only provides much of the money that finances these and other U.S. industries, but has spread out to become a diversified department-store of high finance. This week Lehman (pronounced Leeman) will reach across the Atlantic Ocean: as co-managers with London's N.M. Rothschild & Sons of a consortium of 68 international banking concerns, Lehman will put on sale...