Word: machinistic
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Much of A Chorus Line is taken from Bennett's own life and feelings about the theater. He was born in 1943 in Buffalo, the year Oklahoma! started Broadway on a musical bonanza. His mother worked as a secretary at Sears and his father as a machinist in the Chevy plant. They still do. By the time Michael was three, he was an incurable dancer to any music from the radio. His parents started him in dancing school, and he has never stopped-dancer in West Side Story and Subways Are for Sleeping, choreographer of Company and Follies...
...criminal career that has spanned two decades, Gary Addison Taylor, 39, an itinerant Michigan machinist, has robbed, raped, stabbed and otherwise brought mayhem to at least a dozen women in three states. Incredibly, courts and psychiatrists time and again have declined to keep him confined. Last week Houston police were holding Taylor on serious charges that may finally put him behind bars for good...
Many of the victims are self-admitted patsies, whose usual wariness evaporated in dreams of heady 12%-14% interest. "Sure I was a sucker. I thought I could double our money," concedes Philip Profita, 60, a Fort Myers machinist who bought $21,000 worth of promissory notes from now defunct Homestate Investments Inc. Even though a local banker warned him against it, Floyd Campbell, 69, a retired service engineer, invested $35,000 in what he thought was first mortgages in a Continental Investments Inc. development. "The banker said he couldn't afford to pay interest like that," Campbell recalls...
...stolen the secret was encouraged by a series of shocking facts: the 1950 arrest of English Physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed to supplying Russia with atomic information; the admission by Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice. He added that his brother-in-law Julius Rosenberg had recruited him to steal secrets from Los Alamos...
...never feel here that these workers are too immiserated. At some points the deftness of a spray painter, or the practiced touch of a door fitter, becomes surprisingly absorbing; at others, the jerky, repeated shifting of an eye as a girl watches her machine, or a stoic machinist impart the pain of a single muscle and the exhaustion of an unmoving face...