Mr. Fennell's project, "Tree Dome," is a jerry-built gazebo with a central oculus made of discarded wood scavenged from building sites around New Haven.
Terrence McNally's play, about the reunion of two former doubles partners (Ms. Lansbury and Marian Seldes), is a jerry-built shrine to enduring star power.
"Deuce," which opened last night in a production that also stars the formidable Marian Seldes, is a jerry-built shrine to enduring star power.
All the electricity was a jerry-built fire hazard.
That was a jerry-built alliance, fit for the moment but not for the long haul.
Next door was a jerry-built movie theater called the Edison Exposure, where that fall I saw my first art film — the regional premiere of Andy Warhol's "Chelsea Girls".
Writer is brought to an emergency clinic, "Loreto Mare" or, formally, the Ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto, which was a jerry-built replacement for the famous 16th century structure celebrated in musical history.
There's a jerry-built feel to the movie, as if it had been hatched by the screenwriters Andy Stock and Rick Stempson over a long caffeine-addled weekend and shot while its star, Jeremy Piven, had a few hours to spare between HBO and Broadway.
Davis changes the lightbulbs, waiting until four or five blow before getting out the ladder; the operation to move the washing machine, as he describes it, was a jerry-rigged triumph familiar to anyone with a dad who considers himself a bit handy.
The deal on the air traffic controllers last week, which was a jerry-built contraption if ever I saw one, offers a discouraging preview of what is in store as Congress scrambles to deal with specific budget crises without addressing the underlying big issues.
