Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artists, who find their new freedom thoroughly rewarding. Guitarist Juan de Dios Jose was denied a musician's license in Cuba because he refused to join the Communist Party. In Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, he plays gigs at local restaurants and is completing training in auto-body repair. "It's like a dream come true, being able to say what I feel," he comments. Says New York-based Novelist Reinaldo Arenas, who drove 26 hours to the festival to avoid any chance of being on an airplane hijacked to Cuba: "I feel that I am a writer...
Newcomers may find local shopping a shock. The major mall is too far away to visit regularly, and ruburban stores, trying to attract both natives and newcomers, carry schizophrenic stock. The appliance-repair shop also sells running shoes; the wine selection at the liquor store shows promise, but the owner still recommends Riesling with meat loaf; the grocery displays bagels next to the pork chops, and one store may handle both hot tubs and pool tables...
...ends. The gravediggers on Hart Island repair to a black-and-white television set to watch a rerun of Bonanza. Outside, in a corner of the field, last light leaves a stone on which somebody etched, "Cry not for us for we are with the Father. No longer do we cast shadows on the ground as you do. We are at peace...
...City police, the FBI and New York Telephone security, which tapped the phone lines connected to the machine. Then Chui tried to reach the intruders by leaving messages in their computer terminals. "You have done some harm to the system," read one plea. "Please call us and help us repair the damage." About an hour after the message went out, someone called back. "He said he was sorry," recalls Chui. "But when we asked how he got into the system he refused to answer...
...times over 30 minutes before successfully making a collect call to her parents in Dayton. Ohio Bell reported that on the first day of the strike its supervisors could handle only 153,000 operator-assisted long-distance calls, instead of the normal 289,000. Phone installations were postponed, and repair work was held up. Southern New England Telephone admitted that problems normally fixed in a day were going untended for as long as four days. Troubleshooting managers swapped suits and ties for work shirts and blue jeans as they clambered up telephone poles and crawled into manholes. Many had never...