Word: cement
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...same time being entirely removed from it. It just doesn't translate. Such "art" occupies a small and meaningless universe all its own, with an internal logic that, while it may look like ours, fundamentally has nothing to do with ours. Why, one wonders is Bladkov's Cement--the quintessential work of socialist realism (which contains such gastronomical metaphors as: "The sea was like boiling milk")--taken more seriously than a bunch of grabby kids having breakfast and scteasming "Leggo my Eggo" from the television? It's the same sort of fanciful persiflage...
...mountain valleys some 20 to 25 miles inland. One such is Renteria (pop. 18,000), which adjoins the old Spanish summer royal residence of San Sebastian. A river running through town has the sickly sweet stench of dumped industrial wastes. A pall of chemical smoke from paper, plastics and cement factories hangs over the area on all but the windiest days. The town has a medieval center with a church and central square; the impression is of a dying 19th century industrial civilization suffocating an even older culture. Says a Basque journalist: "The young get fed up with the fact...
Richard Harris overacts as James Parker, Jane's adventure-monger father. But he really can't be blamed for that: Most of his interactions are with Jane, so Harris must cope with the unenviable task of bouncing his lines off Bo, which is like bouncing a casaba melon off cement. Nevertheless, he is successful at times, and provides the film's few entertaining moments. It is hard to say if Tarzan would have been a good movie even with a better actress playing Jane, somebody with style and grace. Julie Christie for instance, or (a few years ago) Katherine Hepburn...
...muted cries of the injured and terrified, the carnage was staggering: 108 people lay dead in the atrium of the sleek, 40-story Hyatt Regency Hotel. More than 180 were injured, and at least three more died later. Some victims were pinned for hours beneath the tons of steel, cement and cables. Said Mayor Richard Berkley: "It was the worst disaster in the history of Kansas City...
Within minutes an enormous rescue crew had assembled: 250 policemen, 250 firemen and hundreds of paramedics. With blowtorches, chain saws and jackhammers they struggled to peel away the twisted beams and cement boulders. They worked 13 feverish hours to free the injured and retrieve the dead. Said Doug Klote, an ambulance company official: "Death and mutilation are nothing new to me. But this is the worst...