Word: handyman
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...opponents' almost ridiculous youth confirms it. So many of them are the pigtailed picture of Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed swearing to her mother that she had not set fire to the handyman. "These kids were two years old," King says with a sigh, "when I was No. 1." They delight her even so, and she smiles as she observes, "When you're young, you think you're the center of the universe. When you're older, you realize you're just a little speck." Immediately following her worst defeat in 22 years...
...Vallely walked off his job, went to the campaign headquarters of anti-war congressional candidate Robert Drinan and asked to be put to work doing "anything." As a type of political handyman for Drinan, he performed every job from poster-hanger to chauffeur, gaining valuable experience in the process...
...LOSE THEIR ZIP, drives 63 miles a day on his rural delivery route. Detours add five miles in mud season. "I've had to jack myself out two or three times this year," he says. "The trick is to get under the car with this thing called a handyman jack, get it up three or four feet and then swing the car sideways onto solid ground...
...family anger takes different forms. Pearl becomes a compulsive handyman. "All she wanted was to be allowed to get on with what mattered: calk the windows; weatherstrip the door. With tools she was her true self, capable and strong." Son Cody finds his outlet as a time-and-motion consultant. The richer he grows weeding out waste and inefficiency around the country, the clearer it becomes that time and motion are all he truly possesses. Daughter Jenny is a pediatrician who marries three times and buries herself in runny noses, diaper rashes and colic. There seems to be no line...
...practice should come during the squad's eight-day, nine-game junket to Florida that begins tomorrow After spending his first two seasons as an infield handyman with the junior varsity and varsity. Chicarello found a home last year as Harvard's designated hitter, and for the first time he heads for Florida with a spot in the lineup just about sewn...