Word: welderful
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...male dominant, and Robbins seems to feel -- though this and much else are not clear -- that worship of the goddess Astarte in early times was gentler. His novel's heroine is an Astarte- Venus-Jezebel figure, a young artist named Ellen Cherry. Her husband Boomer, a lame, redneck welder, appears to represent the lame god Vulcan in this strange jumble of myths...
Then came Patrick Purdy. A year ago last week the deranged welder used a semiautomatic "assault rifle" to spray bullets at an elementary school in Stockton, Calif. When the shooting and screaming had ended, five children lay dead; 29 others and one teacher were injured. For many Americans, a long-held misgiving hardened into a compelling certainty: too much firepower was too easily available. One year later, California and five cities elsewhere have laws restricting or prohibiting weapons like the one Purdy used...
...Vilnius fuel-machinery plant, he spied a sign in Russian reading not more rights but full independence. "Who gave you that?" Gorbachev challenged a Lithuanian welder. When the worker replied that he had made the sign, Gorbachev switched to a softer approach, commending the man on his grasp of Russian. But the worker would have none of Gorbachev's compliments. "You don't think we know how to write in Russian?" he challenged. "We can read and speak Russian too, while there are lots of Russians who can't speak a word of Lithuanian...
...wonderful to hear prominent Republicans suddenly discovering the vital role of the National Guard in preserving our freedom. Quayle himself said in his Thursday-night acceptance speech that he is "proud" of his National Guard service, during which he was trained as a welder and then put to work grinding out press releases. The same people who make a big issue of Michael Dukakis' veto of a law requiring people to recite the Pledge of Allegiance -- implying, though never saying, that this casts doubt on Dukakis' patriotism -- insist that it is somehow a cheap shot to ask what Dan Quayle...
Once the leak was found, repairs were made quickly. "By 1:15 in the afternoon, we had put a temporary patch on the leak, and we called in a welder who put on a permanent...