Word: makeshifts
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...movie uses a series of montages saturated with stereotypes to track the "developing" friendship of Nina and George. (They go to amusement parks. They watch videos together in makeshift slumber parties. And, yes, they go dancing.) The complication, of course, is Nina's boyfriend, Vince (John Pankow), an outspoken civil liberties lawyer who naturally resents George's intrusion. Tension builds until the bomb explodes: Nina announces her pregnancy and her desire to raise the baby with George instead of Vince...
...white float drives out of sight, and the loyal crowd disperses. The park remains incredibly busy, though, and a youth attracts a number of parade-goers by drumming on a plastic can. Eventually, he hands the sticks off to a buddy sitting on a bench just behind their makeshift stage. Four young men take turns playing the cans, until a cop on horseback approaches. The policeman makes a signal with his hand that looks like he's cutting his throat. The drummers are suddenly silent, focusing their attention on the cop's approach...
...wood-cutting machine in an English magazine and forged one out of scrap metal. Down in the artisans' suq in Asmara, men in blue overalls don masks cut from cardboard to weld new pots from old oil tins and cooking braziers from rusted rods. The clang, hammer, sizzle of makeshift industry are everywhere as boys flatten old iron bars for their brothers to beat into new shovels...
...People say the army has been moving its tanks and guns into the desert, to remote desert bivouacs where they hope U.S. missiles cannot find them. Command centers near the highway to Jordan, the only land link out of this isolated country, have been abandoned as generals disperse to makeshift headquarters. Antiaircraft guns ring the airport where U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan landed for the talks that Iraqis dare to hope will forestall the bombs. "We want him to bring peace," says a shopkeeper watching the babies' coffins go by. "We pray to Allah to help him bring peace...
...makeshift desktop PC may not be the latest and greatest of computer technology, but it's all I really need, and it was free...