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...fundamental idea behind Somewhere In Time is that true love can overcome any obstacle from social boundaries to the ultimate trump card, time itself. The film chronicles the supposedly magnificant obsession of one Richard Collier, a milk-fed Midwestern playwright marked for success by the gods for his overpowering goodness. Collier seems to come roaring out of the pages of Grit, but no matter, he is successful and stylish with a fancy glass office in Chicago, a foreign sports car and expensive clothes. And yet, he is not satisfied. He has broken up with his girlfriend, he needs...
Three years ago Bruce Collier, assistant to Dean Rosovsky, thought about the energy problems in William James Hall and came up with a similar plan of action. By turning off steam and electricity at night and on weekends, Collier says he saved 30 to 40 per cent on those bills. Nevertheless, William James still made it into the Big Four because of its ventilation system--one that Leahy hopes to abandon by next spring--which Collier refers to as "an absolute horror story...
...mechanism then mixes the air to the desired temperature and distributes it to the rest of the building. This process occurs even if the outside temperature is the same as the desired inside temperature. "I'd almost say you should junk the ventilation, open the windows and use fans," Collier says...
That would be impossible, though, because William James is a "sealed" building that relies on its ventilation system and contains a good number of rooms without windows, Collier notes. So whenever the outside temperature creeps even ten degrees above freezing, the cooling system must be activated. "That means you're turning the energy on from March to November or more," Collier says. And Abernathy notes that insulating the building would prove difficult because the space inside the plasterboard and concrete walls is less than two inches...
...made his rounds, traveling to Yorkshire fishing villages, to Welsh coal fields and, on occasion, to France and Belgium. The result of this avocation is a series of richly drawn portraits. Editor Michael Hiley has sifted through voluminous notes to provide a gallery of dustwomen, fishergirls, sackmakers, brickmakers and collier girls, complete with a sense of their accents, labor conditions, social attitudes, even the texture and color of their working costumes...