Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production faithfully reproduces Ibsen's disturbing vision, but like any other Hedda Gabler it must stand or fall on the interpretation of the lead role. Fortunately, Amy Aquino delivers a strong and deftly-controlled performance. In her physical expression, especially, she holds Hedda's dichotomies in convincing balance. The cold, intense eyes and queenly carriage reflect her aristocratic upbringing and twisted idealism, while slight gestures--hands rubbed nervously together, a flash of anguish in the face--betray the tensions seething within her. Aquino centers the drama's energy by compressing it, displaying a clenched surface that makes Hedda's moments...
...through most of the second half, and by six points with 1:35 left, the Crimson pulled within two points in the final minute and seemed on the verge of sending the donnybrook into overtime. But the swarming Bentley defense picked off a pass from Harvard's Mike Stenhouse--cold off the bench after Glenn Fine fouled out breaking Bentley's freeze--with ten seconds left to ice the game...
Even if it's another cold one, the U.S. is ready
Neither have the nation's utilities and industries. They have taken a variety of steps to avoid the fuel shortages, plant closings and transportation tie-ups that made the bitterly cold winter of 1976-77 a national hardship to remember-and to learn from. Utilities have increased their storage capacity for natural gas: the South Jersey Gas Co., for example, this summer added 1.2 billion cu. ft., an increase of 30%. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has arranged to buy synthetic gas as a backup in case pipeline deliveries of natural gas from Texas prove insufficient. Many...
Americans have traditionally luxuriated in the intimacy and fragrance of the open fireplace. However, it imparts more romance than B.T.U.s. Most fireplaces deliver only about 10% of the potential heat of the wood, draw in cold outside air and actually remove warmth from the house. As old Ben Franklin observed, "If you sit near the fire, you have that cold draft of uncomfortable air nipping your back and heels ... by which many catch cold, being scorched before, and, as it were, froze behind." Which is why he devised "the New-Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place"-better-known as the Franklin stove...