Word: handiworks
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...Andy Kaufman brings a saving sweetness to the garage mechanic, who speaks his own variety of fractured English. Danny De Vito barks his way through the role of the dispatcher with a Runyonesque brio. Like the other outstanding show of the new season, WKRP in Cincinnati, Taxi is the handiwork of Mary Tyler Moore alumni. Why doesn't someone give these people a network of their very...
Police recognized the killings as the Mob's handiwork but were stumped about the motive. They kept associates of the gang under surveillance, tapped their phones and pressed informants for underworld gossip. The break finally came when an associate of the thieves, who had fled West, was picked...
There the anthropologist ordered several revisions, and O'Bradovich made a new model. The shopping list he gave our Nairobi bureau included a pair of brown glass eyes, a dead rabbit and false eyelashes; and he also requested a personal guard to protect his equipment and handiwork from whatever hazards might lurk in the bush. In three 18-hour days, O'Bradovich fashioned a plaster head modeled from skull fragments, then used the head to mold a latex mask of a Homo habilis face. A Kenyan volunteer wore the mask for Fischer's cover photograph, taken...
...handiwork of a number of Egypt's rulers is evident on the grounds: a gate dating from the reign of Taharqa, one of the Nubian kings who ruled Egypt in the 25th dynasty, and the remains of a chapel from the Ptolemaic period. The archaeologists have also discovered priests' quarters, which could provide new information about ancient Egyptian religious practices. Their hope, of course, is that even more dramatic artifacts lie waiting to be unearthed. A small rise overlooking the temple is dotted with large stone heads of sphinxes, and team members believe that monumental statues lie just...
...being a fairly gripping fantasy-adventure. But it answers all the questions too soon and then has nowhere to go. Moreau turns out to be a mad visionary who, having partially cracked the genetic code, is trying to breed animals into human beings. The servants are some of his handiwork. As for those creatures in the jungle, they represent Moreau's near misses - brut ish humanoids who cannot transcend their origins as bears, lions, hyenas...