Word: repairman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This was not the first time I've carefully explained to my wife something she already knew. I do it all the time, and it's never an absolutely splendid experience for either of us. In this case, my wife had actually met someone who was once a Maytag repairman, working alone in a rural area. He hated those commercials about bored repairmen. Apparently, people would call him to get their appliances repaired, and he'd tell them that, given his appointment schedule, he wouldn't be able to get out there until the following Tuesday...
However, the fun was not limited to the men. Amelia H. Kaplan '96-'97, was "Bert," an auto-repairman. She wore a one-piece blue uniform, a Super Bowl baseball cap backwards, a long black wig and a considerable beer belly. A limp cigarette hung from her fingers...
Surely, the life of the contemporary poet ought to seem as interesting as, say, that of the typewriter repairman--with whom the poet shares both a link to antiquated technology and a need for fineness of touch. But to get at what's really interesting means digging into a number of unsettling questions. Is the poet's embrace of academia (even more than fiction writers, poets are likely to teach for a living) a bad thing? In an age of computers whose memories dwarf our own, what is the fate of the old-fashioned practice of learning poems by heart...
...during her extended family's annual June sojourn at the Delaware shore, Delia takes a walk down the beach and veers right toward their rented cottage, where she hitches a ride with the roof repairman. Some time later, she gets out at a small inland town and sets about buying some clothes to substitute for her swim togs. After that, she must find food and a place to sleep. Larger questions, such as what on earth she thinks she is doing, are submerged in the search for necessities...
...just his diaries that were laid open. In recent weeks lawyers for the Senate ethics committee have combed through 5,000 pages of Senator Robert Packwood's private journal. "Are there personal things in there?" Packwood lamented last week. "Sure. Family heartaches. Disappointments. Irritation with the car repairman." There was more than that: word emerged from the committee that the diaries, which of course range far beyond the scope of the sexual-misconduct charges he faces, may in fact contain evidence of unrelated criminal violations. Last Monday Packwood responded to such reports by insisting, "For the life...