Word: keepers
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They ended up working 12-hour days, taking tourists through the lighthouse, maintaining trails on the island, selling souvenirs at the gift shop and repairing the somewhat dilapidated keeper's house, where they lived. But they would do it again--if that particular caretaking position weren't so sought after. Instead, the couple returned to a home on Maquoit Bay, Maine, where they house-sit nine months of the year while the owner is in the Cook Islands doing research on whales...
...respond as the keeper in the newsroom?? Fiedler asks. ?I ultimately agreed and Jesus agreed and Robert Beatty agreed. We talked to smart people in San Jose.? He adds that the decision to fire the columnist was made by Herald executives. ?Nobody in San Jose said you should do this,? he says. ?We were looking to see if there was precedent here...
...says Stevenson's sympathies were with "indigenous people - their aspirations, their problems trying to hold their own against outsider influences, whether they were missionaries, colonial or business people." Nearly a quarter of a century after they gained independence, Samoans are relaxed in the author's presence. Each afternoon, shop keeper Henry Nickel jogs up Mount Vaea, takes off his flip-flops and does stretches by Stevenson's grave. "I just come here to exercise," he says...
Bancroft got to exercise her hauteur in a few later films (The Turning Point, Agnes of God), but her longest and most piquant role was as wife, muse and keeper of Mel Brooks. They made an implausible, endearing couple: the crazy Brooklyn boy and the Bronx girl who, when they let her, could work miracles. --By Richard Corliss
...course, the stellar goaltending of Grumet-Morris, a Hobey Baker finalist, didn’t hurt. But protecting the keeper was a veteran defensive corps—a captain, an assistant captain, two juniors, a sophomore, and just one rookie—that Mazzoleni and his assistants had spent three years forming...