Word: workbench
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...prestige or an unwonted influx of tourists. Soccer remains a closed language, an alternative to politics, and perhaps after all a harmless substitute for war. For the aficionados of the working and middle classes, it is art, poetry, music, the sole palliation of the boredom of the office and workbench...
...annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads, and a bedroom with a long workbench...
...people, most of them unrepentant Stalinists and top Cabinet ministers, have lost their jobs in recent months-and almost all have been allowed to resign with dignity. An exception was the hated former Chief of Security, Miroslav Mamula, who was fired. He then got a job at a factory workbench, but when his fellow workers recognized him, they hounded him until he quit. In fact, the lash of public opinion has been harsher than that of Dubček. The suicides of 29 officials in recent weeks are attributed to TV and press exposés of their past roles...
...Curiously enough, Nesbitt never shows any artist in his studio. Instead, he makes the room evoke its owner. He deliberately included the softness of a paper bag on Nevelson's workbench to emphasize the hardness of the wood blocks next to it, angled his view of Charles Hinman's loft so that its slanting half-opened window and rolls of drawing paper tilted against the wall suggest the dynamic diagonals that characterize the shaped canvases that Hinman produces. By simplifying textures and using a dreamily radiant color scheme, Nesbitt adds his personality to that of the resident. Says...
Boudreaux wanted to do metal work, but he could not reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...