Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Watson beats his son every Sunday and throws a half-caste mistress off his land when she becomes inconvenient. But the narrative, which is told in 36 short chapters by ten locals, mostly mixes awe and dread, along with a certain aw-shucks accommodation. Outsize characters, Watson's workmen and neighbors seem to think, have their little crotchets...
...common citizens are now policing the former Stasis. Many tradesmen refuse service to ex-agents. Gasoline stations have posted signs denying them petrol, and job notices often specify that dismissed Stasis need not apply. When three ex-agents showed up at an East Berlin slaughterhouse in search of jobs, workmen locked them in a storage refrigerator for two hours. The Stasis no longer feel safe even in their own homes. "My friends have had their windows smashed, and they get threatening letters," says Dieter. "If they report it, the police don't investigate...
...Trump's tastes run more toward grandiosity ("the eighth wonder of the world"), hyperbole ("totally unique") and wishful thinking ("the crowds are going to be so big, you won't be able to get into the place"). India's Taj Mahal took 22 years and more than 20,000 workmen to build. Trump's Atlantic City version took only eight years and 1,800 laborers. But Trump cedes nothing to the original structure. He claims to have built "the largest (and most expensive) casino resort, convention center and entertainment complex constructed at one time," a great, glittery gumdrop...
Henderson is young (32), handsome, black, with boldness and brights to burn. Surrounded by his newly hired employees, making way for the workmen who are adding a floor to his Seventh Avenue headquarters, he has that born-yesterday look. Henderson has been in business on his own for less than a year, but he has already won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's award for best new talent. What captivated the jaded professional eyes was the fresh colors of his simple, breezy separates. Burnished goldenrod, glowing coppery brown, deep plum, a palette of greens that goes from pale...