Word: cranes
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...realism or toward sentimentality either, that Places in the Heart derives much of its strength. The dust rising from the wheels of a hurrying flivver, the chilly darkness of a cavernous bank, the way the early morning sun strikes a field of cotton, and the camera's simple crane up to reveal the immensity of the field and of the task before the little band of pickers toiling in it are palpable. Ultimately, it is the play of light more than the play of actors and of words that imparts to movies like this both their singularity and their...
...forestall a disaster, the divers began carving a 10 ft. by 17 ft. hole in the hull. A giant floating crane operated by Smit Tak International, a Rotterdam company that often retrieves sunken ships from places like the war-torn Persian Gulf, will be towed out to sea on a platform to pluck out the barrels gingerly, an operation that will probably take about a month. Declares Smit Tak International's managing director, Klaas Reinigert: "Compared with all the other jobs we've done, this one's easy." Despite the intense publicity that the sinking...
...Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins. "It is so earnest about making itself a great city. When people spot funkiness in Dallas, they race around with a wrecking ball and get rid of it immediately. "The Dallas of the '80s is a community that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back with some teeth knocked out will one day be blocked in, assuming the cranes persist. Dallas leaders, boosters to their marrow...
...effort to stem the tide of destruction, workers with the Southern Pacific Railroad maneuvered a large crane last week along a 27-mile causeway built of 50 million cu. yds. of rock, sand and gravel that divides the lake into north and south sections. The aim of the engineers: to begin carving a 300-ft. breach in the causeway, the final step in a three-month, $3.2 million project. If they are successful, water on the south side of the lake will fall about 9 in. during the next two months, lessening the threat of floods to Salt Lake City...
Skvorecky's alter ego is Danny Smiricky, 48, a Czech émigré professor at a college very like Skvorecky's academic home for some 15 years, the University of Toronto. Danny teaches dark Old World lessons from Poe, Hawthorne and Stephen Crane to nice Canadian boys and girls whose idea of horror is derived from Stephen King movies. As for The Red Badge of Courage, Danny's students read it not as a commentary on war but as one more case study of a young man's identity crisis...