Leaders of the recovery effort here, who have established a perimeter restricting access to the affected area as well as the makeshift morgues, declined to discuss the list of people who remain unaccounted for.
I could hear school kids and A-list artists alike warming up in the makeshift huts that served as dressing and green rooms.
Thomas and three other volunteers, all of them African American, sat Thursday at a makeshift table in a bare room, poring over phone lists and racing to evangelize to whomever picks up the phone.
At City Hall, officials in this town of 70,000 residents have posted a list of the 8,340 people who arrived safely at 41 makeshift shelters.
He arrives here early each morning and leaves late in the evening, and intends to do it day after day until the list of the missing is down to zero and the makeshift morgue is empty.
"List," borrowed from the French word liste, first turns up, in the modern sense, in "Hamlet," when Horatio reports that Fortinbras has "sharked up a list of landless resolutes" — i.e., indiscriminately put together a makeshift army.
In a 1998 essay, "The Feminist Time Forgot," Kate Millett lamented the lengthening list of her sisters who had "disappeared to struggle alone in makeshift oblivion or vanished into asylums and have yet to return to tell the tale," or who fell into "despairs that could only end in death".
Similar booms have forced many of the nation's 1,200 community colleges to add makeshift parking lots, rent extra space and keep thousands of students on waiting lists this fall.
Outside a makeshift hospital, steps from the arched entrance to the real one, we were presented with a printed list of the eleven dead.
That said, you can still use the built-in mics to call folks on your contact list or "Broadcast" messages to other Home devices on your network, as a kind of makeshift intercom system.
