Word: kit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bought a Sears tool kit for my first car. One of the screwdrivers broke when I used it for a job it was not meant to do. I sheepishly returned the item and to my amazement was given a new one. Since then, I have spent thousands of dollars at Sears. If my wife reads this, I need a ¾-h.p. router. She knows where...
...students build their boats from scratch. Students in a separate one-week class build theirs from kits. For their $300 in tuition plus the price of the kit, they work under the guidance of another Maine boatbuilder, Eric Dow, constructing small, square-bowed dinghies known as Nutshell prams. Those who sign for the one-week course in able-seamanship spend their days aboard the schooner Vernon Langille, a 38-ft. replica of a traditional Tancook Island sailing boat, plying the waters off Maine's rocky coast...
...colors are splashed over a sort of kit of parts devised by Supervising Architect Jon Jerde: structural elements have been combined in various ways to mark entrances, for example, or to form information booths and food stands. Among the most striking are striped cardboard columns known as Sonotubes and normally used in making concrete forms, which give stature to rented tents, support cloth pyramids, and generally lend settings color, shape and order. Rented steel scaffolding has been bolted into lighthearted, ephemeral structures from which fabric waves. Thin, tubular balloons, some hundreds of feet long, sway in the air like giant...
Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic violence...
...Bradshaw (Chad Hummel), a young American author in search of a subject, is the show's male protagonist. Paris and Venice fail to inspire him so he makes his way to Berlin, a city rich with parties and nightlife. There, he is naively introduced to the subculture of the Kit Kat Klub by a pleasant-seeming young German smuggler, Ernst Ludwig (David Kirach). Calmly watching the stageshow. Cliff is masterfully seduced by its star-performer Sally Bowles (Belle Linda Halpern). And while the first act only hints at the rising Nazi power, focusing on Cliff and Sally's ensuing love...