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...play remains the best of Shaw's early stage works. Lynn Redgrave as Vivie owns the current production with her crisp delivery and blowtorch shows of anger. As Mrs. Warren, Ruth Gordon is badly miscast. Her accent, when speaking of "the high-pocrisy of society," and her brassy manner belong less to the "manager" of a string of high-class brothels in Brussels and Vienna than to a Dodge City madam on the back lot at Universal Pictures...
...Kansas of The Wiz is as close to middle America as Harlem's Lenox Avenue at 125th Street. The show, with all new music and lyrics, is saucy with black urban humor. Its talk is jumping jivernacular, its walk is a big-city strut, its dances have a blowtorch frenzy, and its songs range from a warm gospel glow to the rock beat of a riveter mining asphalt...
Heat Shock. Following their normal procedure, the researchers sterilized the exterior of the core samples with a blowtorch, then used a sterile drill to remove sections containing the bacteria. Their precautions produced an unexpected side effect. When they examined chips from the Ross Island core under a microscope, they found that microbes were moving around. "We may have heat-shocked them out of dormancy," says Cameron. Placed in a nutrient broth, the rod-shaped bacteria continued to move about. The club-shaped organisms proved even more responsive. On a culture plate, they reproduced and set up colonies that looked...
Both men joined the gang around 1965. Hohimer was a career burglar with 22 arrests on his record, twelve of them for burglary and robbery. He also showed a marked penchant for violence. His favorite weapon on heists was a propane blowtorch, which he used not simply as an entry tool but also to coerce reluctant robbery victims by threatening to burn off their hair. Hohimer's former wife told police that he once cut off her hair while in a jealous rage and on another occasion emptied a revolver in a circular pattern around their infant daughter...
...where Janie has worked for three years. She was such an attraction at the plant that the company provided her with curtains to hang around her station. After work she loves Atlanta night life, and her apartment is handsomely decorated with aluminum and steel designs created with her blowtorch...