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When the musical The Red Shoes nudged aside its director, lyricist and librettist and dumped star Roger Rees, Broadway wags dubbed it The Lead Shoes, Dead Shoes or Pink Slips. Opening is postponed to Dec. 16. What next -- The Cement Boots...
...Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy of guilty glee...
...guiding skeptical visitors around the mine site, explaining the care with which crews have been contouring and reseeding -- "mitigating" is the word -- old mine wreckage. Orange-stained, acidic water, the beginning of Fisher Creek, flows out of an old adit (mine entrance), but Kirk says large-scale plugging with cement and waste rock will prevent such seepage from dribbling out of Henderson's far side and downstream to Yellowstone. Will this work in a watery, fractured mountain? "There are risks in all human activity," says Kirk...
...women's bathrooms, asbestos-containingfloor tile and mastic, a resin-like cement oftenused with such tiles, shows heavy damage. Sometiles are cracked and buckling, others are dustyand flaking...
...roads that have been reconstituted by adventuresome rail buffs and entrepreneurs to hook customers up with the main lines. The Maryland Midland is one. Nestled in the hills below Camp David, the presidential retreat, it serves 34 customers who need coal and raw materials to turn out cement and lumber products. Paul Denton, 51, a refugee from the Baltimore & Ohio in Baltimore, Maryland, is president, commanding a fleet of 200 cars over 67 miles of track. From a tiny office in the quaint 1902 depot in Union Bridge, he listens to the comforting purr of his six locomotives prowling...