"Anyone want drinks?" -- while Sigourney Weaver slung ratatouille in the makeshift restaurant called Ground Hero.
At the far edge of the settlement was a pair of old army-green school buses, which had been converted into a makeshift store called the Mountain Mall.
Cortes now performs weekly at a makeshift club called Alegrias, on the second floor of the Spanish Benevolent Society, on West Fourteenth Street in Manhattan.
Some held makeshift signs calling Trump a racist or associating him with the Ku Klux Klan or the Confederacy, but many held up professionally produced placards reading, "The G.O.P.: Party of Trump".
What was once a funky little out-of-the-way field — where a car in 1979 was probably inappropriately parked — is now a concession area with jumbo television screens, a barbecue chicken stand, an ice cream kiosk and an overflowing makeshift bar called the Open Arms.
This makeshift theatre, called the Bijou, was furnished with chairs borrowed from a local undertaker.
I saw a sign someone left on a makeshift memorial calling him a "gay angel".
After his band The Crosswalk was dropped from Hollywood Records in 1997, Cody Chesnutt spent several months recording The Headphone Masterpiece in his bedroom, which he used as a makeshift studio called the Sonic Promiseland, in Valley Village, California.
The prison is so packed that there's not enough room for everyone to lie down at once, so the prisoners sleep in shifts, mostly three to a pile on tiny makeshift cots called cobols that are made out of rice sacks and wood scrap.
The army occupied Bangkok's financial district and threatened to use live ammunition against opposition demonstrators, who barricaded their makeshift camp but called off a march.
