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Word: handyman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share a strange fate -- a shelved career, high office without power, a political glory all but lost in nonentity, and a galling kind of subservience. Good news: You are the second highest-ranking official in the land. Bad news: You are also the butler. Or the handyman. All you have is a faintly unclean hope of things to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Destiny Of a Vice President | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...spot is a perfect refuge for a remnant of wilting flower children, including Zoyd Wheeler, a part-time keyboard player, handyman and marijuana farmer. Along with his teenage daughter Prairie, Zoyd still mourns the departure and later disappearance of his ex-wife Frenesi, a onetime '60s radical who was seduced into becoming a Government informer by a notoriously malevolent federal prosecutor named Brock Vond. He has apparently not finished hounding the Wheelers and others. As one observer notes, "Nobody knows just what's goin' on, except there's a nut case leading a heavily armed strike force loose in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spores of Paranoia | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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