Word: blowtorch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to California energy experts, once the wood chips and walnut shells are lit with a blowtorch or an electric hot rod, they continue to bake on their own and give off a steady supply...
...plot as the sentimental opiate of the middle-class theatergoer. In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer with a blowtorch for a tongue. He yearns to puncture all the hypocritical balloons of civilized life. As for the woman, Ann Whitefield (Carole Shelley), she is a spiritedly fetching minx and a sly enchantress of guile to whom any man might feel lucky to surrender...
...been a rough day," the President says as he takes a single pork chop. He recalls his lunch with the labor leaders. "Whew," he says. "Those fellas can be mean. They used a blowtorch on me. That's the first time George Meany has ever talked to me that way." Then comes a typical Carter afterthought: "Tough, but polite. I listened, but I don't think I satisfied them. The minimum-wage bill has labor mad. The farm-price-support bill has the farmers mad. Pretty soon we're going to announce the energy policy-and everybody...
...joker-and even in Faye's cafe the next night with a handful of journalists, his wife and daughter, round a ten-foot table over perfect steaks, he is not prone to giggling fits. What he mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost animal in strength and necessity, though her brand seems to come from her mother, Miss Allie Smith: a quiet, impressive lady with the broad, handsome, watchful face...
...95th birthday on Oct. 25, Duncan has now produced a fourth, titled The Silent Studio (Norton), which focuses on Picasso's art-filled French Riviera villa and on Jacqueline, his wife for a dozen years before his death in 1973. "Living with Picasso was like living with a blowtorch; he was a consuming flame," says Duncan. That quality, he says, still survived in the empty studio when he was taking photographs. "It seemed as if he was still there right at my shoulder, doing his work and in a rough sort of bass-baritone, needling me a little...