Word: makeshifts
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...first thing you see when you wake up and the last thing you see when you go to bed," says Audrey White, 51, a farmer who was forced to evacuate her home two years ago and has been living in one of the island's makeshift shelters ever since. "It tears at your soul...
...gets even stranger. Each year a do-it-yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...
...microphones they had smuggled into the residence, tracking the movements of the 14 Tupac Amaru guerrillas and their 72 VIP hostages. The officers knew what to expect: by midafternoon the hostages would be in upstairs bedrooms and the rebels who were holding them prisoner would have started their regular makeshift soccer game in the spacious ground-floor living room. It went just that way. At about 3 p.m. the listeners heard eight guerrillas, including their commander, Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, stash their rifles in a corner and begin a shouting, thumping game. The army flashed the word to President Alberto Fujimori...
DIED. HERBERT ZIPPER, 92, unconquerable Jewish conductor whose formation of a secret orchestra in a Nazi concentration camp inspired the acclaimed 1995 documentary Never Give Up; in Santa Monica, California. While interned at Dachau, Zipper led his fellow musicians on makeshift instruments--a defiance echoed in his co-composition of the resistance anthem Dachau Song...
...Ginsberg was one of the great minds of our time, not to be replaced," he added, as his eyes shifted to one of dozens of poetry readers making their way to the makeshift podium in this favorite Cambridge night spot, whose regulars range from the city's twenty-something crowd to the local middle-aged literati...