Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vandal who had alarmed the city's police force. And so that very night, the sheepish boys aroused a drowsy policeman and placed the severed limb before him. Before Per and Mike can live happily ever after, they may have to pay for the mermaid's repair. And that is likely to cost them...
...England he found his first choice for a backdrop, Big Ben, sheathed in scaffolding. Result: the shoot underwent a fast change of locale to Windsor Castle. Scaffolding also loomed as a potential problem at the Statue of Liberty, which was scheduled to be shut down late last year for repair and refurbishing. Leifer quickly corralled the busy Carl Lewis and got him to pose last October in what was then the only prototype of the U.S. Olympic uniform. "The real difficulty," says Leifer, "was getting him up at 5:30 a.m. to be at the statue when the light...
...courthouse. An elderly man was walking round the square whacking headless parking meters with his cedar stick. He said he used to walk around whacking them when the meter tops were attached, but the city had the meters taken off because they cost too much to keep in good repair. "It used to make a bigger racket before they cut 'em down...
They did, however, agree to repair the track at no cost...
...Repair the Statue of Liberty [NATION, May 14]? Better to let it rot. If we fix it up, foreigners looking for a better life might actually believe that we intend to welcome them as we once did. Letting it decay will drive home the truth-that their immigration to this country is no longer regarded as their human right. Now it depends on obtaining the approval of a giant bureaucracy that will hunt them down like dogs if they dare to enter without its approval...