Word: riggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crews on the film have routinely packed more than 80 hours of work into six-day weeks, sometimes going as long as two weeks without a break. "I think it's the closest thing to slavery that I've ever laid my eyes on," says Elizabeth Bolden, a set rigger who spent a month on Titanic's Mexico location...
...black water from which they rise. (The catalog, rather absurdly, suggests that celibate Homer was invoking that hoary phantom of the Freudian couch, the vagina dentata. This could make sense only to an art historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently by, and we see the waterspout of a coming tornado. There will be no rescue. The painting refers back to other images of marine disaster, notably Turner's Slave Ship and Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, in an image of total pessimism. This, Homer says, is what...
...showed a lot of character in the game," freshman rigger Nick Simunovic said. "We were not rattled at all when McGill scored...
...checked all the obvious things like the rigger bolts but there might have been something else that I couldn't check that was faulty, and that could have cost us the race...