Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City areas, Research Chemist David Roberts, a specialist in heavy-metal poisoning, discovered amounts of lead that measured six times the level specified in the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-water standards. Even water from the polluted Kansas River proved less leaden than the snow. According to Roberts, car exhausts and factories are spewing into the environment 1,000 times the natural level of lead, and snow acts as a "scrubber" that washes it away. The cliche can now be modernized to read "dirty as the driven snow...
...Thank God for acts of God," said Nicholas H. Vanderbilt '80. "But I'm not looking forward to digging my car...
There is also a touristy foray to America, in which the windswept Bergen gets to ride a San Francisco cable car. The scene looks like a Rice-A-Roni com mercial. As Antonioni abundantly dem onstrated in Zabriskie Point, Italian di rectors should keep their distance from the U.S. The California air makes them go haywire...
...Roschin's mother. As a boy (he is now 44), he rode with his mother on one of the special trains allocated by the Soviets to evacuate women and children to the east. An ingenious boxlike contraption, open-sided toward the audience, creates the impression of a cattle car in which the animals happen to be human...
With few exceptions, this is a train of women without men. Some are inconsolable, some lapse into abrasively catty humor. The car commander is Galina (Bettye Fitzpatrick), and she has more of the instincts of a den mother than a party official. Her chief worry is Katya (Cristine Rose), who spends most of the play catatonically desolated by the absence of her husband. Galina's chief ally in rallying group morale is Masha (Bella Jarrett), a gutsy fighter who can issue a pep talk that would blister a slacking football team...