Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HEYDAY, THE VAST EKO STAHL steelworks was the life-force of Eisenhuttenstadt, a utopian socialist city of 50,000 southeast of Berlin and the pride of the German Democratic Republic. Today the complex of six factories is a hulk dominated by a single operating blast furnace. It glows over an industrial wasteland near the Polish border where thousands have lost their jobs. Since unification, Eko Stahl has cut 85% of its eastern German work force as it closed or restructured its inefficient and overstaffed - plants. The number at Eisenhuttenstadt has shrunk from 12,000 to 3,500, and the remaining...
...knows how sublime and scary it is to float freely in space, tethered to the ship by only a slender lifeline. But none of Musgrave's four missions have fully prepared him for the challenge he faces next week, when he and six other astronauts are scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral on the shuttle Endeavour. "This thing is frightening to me," he admits...
...partner. A crazed gunman barricades himself inside a building and holds off a SWAT team but seems at a loss to explain why. "I want you to send somebody in," he finally calls out, "to help me think of my demands." Even odder, all of this doesn't blast away at viewers with the firepower of a typical sitcom Uzi; devoid of a laugh track, it floats along like an errant Wiffle ball...
...album, Live from Hell. The set was recorded in Houston in late 1991, and by the high standards of Kinison's albums Louder Than Hell and Have You Seen Me Lately?, it's a little lazy -- and, of course, morally reprehensible. But Live from Hell is still a blast from below, a blizzard of belligerence against underdogs (gay men, the homeless) and a parade of celebs whose exploits Kinison considers more lurid than his. Rick James? Axl Rose? "These guys make me look like Pat F-----' Sajak...
...Lenny Bruce -- more studied, less sharp and attacking society from the redneck right instead of the hip-humanist left. But he was no lame-brain Andrew Dice Clay either. What's the difference? Well, stand back, because we have to scream this in a print approximation of the sonic blast that was Kinison's trademark. SOMETIMES HE'S FUNNY! We're not happy about this, but there it is. Alive or dead, in a comedy club or in hell (granted, a fine distinction), Kinison lived up to his self-appointed epithet, Leader of the Banned. For him, hell is just...