Word: welder
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...fashionistas. And while the idea of a firefighter is something to fantasize about, the physical reality may not be. So no job security worries for models yet. But supermodels and celebrities are another question. At least you can pretend that a nameless model really is a firefighter or a welder or a pilot. But put Tom Cruise or Antonio Banderas or Linda Evangelista in a firefighter's uniform, and the fantasy evaporates. Suddenly it's crass, commercial and calculated. But fans needn't worry...
...books I've been involved with have dealt with actual experiences--what's it like to be a schoolteacher or a storekeeper or a spot welder. Death is the one experience none of us have had but all of us will have. So I never thought I would write about that. It came about because as I grew older, and read the obituaries more and more, and names of more and more of my friends appeared--I said, "Hey, this is something." During my work on the book, my wife died. And that added, let us say, a certain note...
...more demand for the latter--especially in the northern port of Cap-Haitien, where Marnet, 29, watched this fall as his one honest meal ticket, the U.S. Army, shipped home the last of its intervention forces. "I may have to join my friends and be a welder," he said--not just any welder but a narco welder, who refits ships to hide drugs. Marnet walked to a cargo vessel, where two large generators powered the torches he said his pals were using to solder double hulls and other secret compartments. On a matchbox, he drew the designs they were following...