Word: bodyworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though it is too early to tell if the network has produced an Edsel, the bodywork so far looks good. Generations' actors are largely veterans. Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues) plays family patriarch Henry Marshall, owner of a chain of five Chicago ice-cream parlors. Lynn Hamilton (The Waltons) is Henry's mother-in-law, Vivian, who years earlier was a servant in the Whitmore mansion. Her former mistress, Pat Crowley (Dynasty), is the lawyer Rebecca < Whitmore, Marshall's attorney and a troubled divorcee. These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which...
...become a sophisticated science when practiced at its best on today's increasingly complicated aircraft. The Boeing 747, biggest of them all, contains 4.5 million removable parts and 135 miles of electrical wiring. Mechanics have branched into specialties, complete with nicknames: "knuckledraggers" take care of hydraulic gear and bodywork, and "twidgets" handle sensitive avionics and other electrical gear. Mechanics now inspect as many parts as possible without removing them, and even have adapted a medical device used for colon examinations as an inspection tool...