Word: coal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, some of the delegates wasted no time getting into the spirit of things. Konstantin Petrov, from the Voroshilovgrad region, demanded, "Why not make a movie that will teach children about coal mining? I can remember only one good book about coal miners, and that was written 30 years ago." Delegates were not surprised to learn that Petrov was a retired miner. Valentina Plenova, 55, a spunky factory worker, took the floor to complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with...
...particular about Shuttle Mission 51-C in January 1985, in which the seal temperature had been 53 degrees (although the air had warmed to 66 degrees by the time of launch). When the spent boosters were recovered from that flight, what Boisjoly described as black soot "just like coal" was found behind a primary ring in one booster, indicating that gases had blown past the first ring. Although erosion had also been found after flights in warmer temperatures, 51-C had been exposed to overnight lows in the 20s and had more extensive ring damage. Boisjoly knew that lower temperatures...
...important, the courts could levy heavy fines and freeze the assets of unions that flouted the new rules. Shah tested the laws in 1983, when several printers walked off their jobs at his plant in northern England; after a violent seven-month battle, Shah emerged victorious. When the National Coal Board used the same legal tools to break the yearlong miners' strike in early 1985, the stage was set for other employers...
This retrospective shows, clearly enough, how such images wound into Kline's work from his roots in the coal country of eastern Pennsylvania, where he was raised by his stepfather, a foreman on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, after his father shot himself in 1917. There is a direct link between his early industrial landscapes of the '40s and a painting like Wotan, 1950, through the work of Kline's contemporaries--especially, in the '40s, De Kooning, whose influence on Kline was pervasive. A case can be made for Wotan as Kline's masterpiece; that extraordinarily forthright black rectangle, with...
...along with all the good things that happen during the Christmas season, the Yuletime is also a period for somber reflection about just how shitty the preceeding 11 months have been. Invariably, lumps of coal appear in every stocking. In case you've forgotten them, I have compiled a small list of 1985's biggest lumps...