Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile underground at the Homestake mine two men are at work, dim silhouettes beneath bright balloons of light cast by their head lamps. They are standing in a low, dark cavern, about 200 ft. long and 50 ft. wide, which is just now acquiring a festive look. Long blue and yellow streamers trail down out of the darkness from the jagged rocks overhead. Richard Aberle is patiently connecting up the streamers to make an electric circuit: yellow to yellow, blue to blue. They lead to detonator caps and charges buried deep in the rock by Aberle's partner...
...Homestake contribution could be encompassed in a solid gold cube 12 ft. to a side, worth at present prices about $10 billion. But at Homestake, the road to El Dorado is mostly dark, deep, hot and dirty. The gold keeps getting harder to find and the tunnels and shafts grow deeper and longer. There are now 250 miles of underground cart tracks, and some shafts plunge so deep toward the earth's molten core that the temperature reaches 135° F. Expenses go on rising. It now costs $200 to extract each ounce of Homestake gold. That is high...
Passion Play is Kosinski's seventh novel and we see more method to the madness of human grotesquerie that has always decorated his pages. Kosinski writes about the dark shadow self--our violent urges, homosexual lusts, transexual curiosities, murderous inclinations, heterosexual explorations, and, inevitably, our intense fear of surrendering control of the flesh and bones that give us life. None of these themes is new to Kosinski; what's new is the lucidity and restraint with which they're developed. Passion Play is his best novel...
...work has seemed to move straight from printing press to college syllabus. Yet it has never been necessary to go to school to acquire a taste for Hawkes. At its best his writing is vividly accessible, and almost always disturbing. His recurrent subject is the eruption of some dark, violent passion into the turmoil of mental ife, and his prose strains not only to describe this event but to re-create it. Hawkes at peak intensity is the literary equivalent of delirium...
This kind of attention to quality has helped make the Coleman Co. of Wichita, Kans., the world's leading manufacturer of camping equipment. Its dependable gas-fired lantern, as revered as L.L. Bean's Maine hunting boot in the woodsmen's pantheon, helped farmers work after dark during World War I and provided light for Admiral Richard Byrd in Antarctica; more than 33 million have been sold since the lantern was introduced in 1914. Almost as popular are the company's various camping stoves. One famous model was the pocket stove developed for American G.I.s...