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...this Off-Broadway import from England, the setting is a boiler room, and virtually the only prop is the boiler. This behemoth is a triumph of mechanical indigestion, hiccuping, squealing, glug-glugging, roaring, and occasionally subsiding with a grandiose belch. Anyone who thinks the machine will subdue the man is in for a head-spin. No machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance...
Purdue's offense was too complicated even to have a name: 25 different for mations, 75 pass plays, plus a quarterback named Bob Griese, who completed 17 out of 21 tosses for 230 yds. and three touchdowns as the Boiler makers swamped Ohio University...
Such a fellow is Britain's Anthony Caro, 42, whose works suggest an explosion in a boiler factory. His Month of May, a star attraction at London's current sculpture triennial in Battersea Park, is a magenta, orange and green collection of huge aluminum jackstraws seemingly flung into the air over two chunks of I beam. There is no pedestal, no impressive volume filled with bronze-and no relation to human scale. "I wanted to make sculpture that is as meaningful in a room as a person," says Caro. So he shunned anatomically suggestive totems as "people substitutes...
...after failing to sell his idea, he rounded up a handful of fellow scientists, raised $200,000 and founded his own company-Gourdine Systems, Inc. He is already producing laboratory EGD generators for use in college and high school demonstrations, and has licensed Foster Wheeler Corp.-an industrial boiler manufacturer-to build EGD generators for industry...
...Paige, 41, he supplies a hard-to-find essential of slum rehabilitation: responsible home-grown leadership. Working by night as a boiler fireman for the city's Sanitation Department to support his wife and two teen-age sons, he customarily cuts his sleep to five or six hours to spend more of his day struggling to get people on his block to "participate." Says Gypsum's Obey: "If Paige can keep these people together, we'll be all right...