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...conductor of electricity. That allows some of the current in the lines to leak off, creating a blue glow around the wires. This happens especially at points where the lines have a flaw (a faulty section of wire, a minor scratch, a coating of soot or pollen) and in damp weather, when air becomes a better conductor. The result: high-tension experiences for everyone in the vicinity of the line...
...recent survey, 18 families living near Ohio Power Co.'s line reported being shocked by touching farm machinery, wire fences or even damp clotheslines. Two women complained of shocks received while on the toilet. Other complaints were bad TV reception and the sizzling sound of the electrical discharge. Said C.B. Ruggles, whose farm is split by the line: "You'd swear we were living near a waterfall...
Baldini's allusion to medicine is more than casual. Even when the floodwaters had receded, hundreds of frescoed walls in Florence remained so damp that the paintings were threatened by a bacterial onslaught of molds and fungi. "If we had not found a solution," says Baldini, "those frescoes would have been devoured by micro-organisms." He and his colleagues ran through dozens of mold-killing antibiotics to test their effect on paint. Finally one was left: Squibb's Nystatin, a stomach medicine, which did not harm the pigments. But it came in the form of pills, which could...
...that tanks and trucks can drive for miles inside them. One tunnel where the molelike troops are quartered contains half a mile of double-decked bunks. There is even a 1,000-seat theater hollowed out of the granite. Everywhere the eerie glow from fluorescent lights turns the damp rock walls a sickly purple...
Bottoms is not so well trained or certain an actor. He wields his natural timidity like a staff with which he hopes to beat the role into submission. His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism. Of course, he is burdened with a role that is rather too severely sentimentalized. His Walter is blood kin to Pookie Adams of The Sterile Cuckoo (which represents the previous collaboration of Director Pakula and Scenarist Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness...