Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years Richard had escorted visiting scientists to his parents' dig at Olduvai and taken them around East Africa on courtesy safaris. In 1960, at the age of 17, he left school without graduating and set up a safari business on his own. The business did well, but Richard soon yearned to be back in the digs. Then, in 1963, on a chance flight over Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, he spotted what looked like interesting sediment beds and, encouraged by his parents, set off to explore the area. His first expedition proved to be a success; the team he assembled...
...Houdini's success was based on more than defiance of the establishment; he seemd to defy fate itself. In 1916, for instance, Houdini narrowly escaped from a box buried six ft. underground. (Once free, he had to dig his way to the surface.) Another of his death-defying tricks was the Chinese Water Torture Cell: padlocked by the ankles in a glass-fronted water tank, Houdini hung upside down, but would make his escape within harrowing minutes. (He did not die doing this stunt, despite the efforts of Hollywood producers to make people think...
Biographer Ferris can fill in some blanks about Thomas' shaky finances, dig up the autopsy report that found Thomas' liver in reasonably good shape, even print unpublished verse of no particular distinction. In the end, the book seems too late with too little. But its main shortcoming is a failure to render the only Dylan Thomas that really matters-the maker of pagan word music that can still pass the A.E. Houseman power test by raising the hairs on the back of the listener's neck. - R.Z. Sheppard
Margaret Drabble is not a Zen guru, a panderer, or a showman. She is a novelist. She does what the writer-as-artist can do better than anyone else: dig down to the truth of our inner lives and make it visible. The Ice Age is convincing evidence that, like England, the novel in modern times is not really dying, but undergoing a strange metamorphosis, from which it yet may rouse itself "like a strong man after sleep...
...labor-short industries as mining and engineering. Mining jobs are available to immigrants who can produce proof of having worked only 200 shaft hours. Such alien adventurers are often as undesirable as redneck mercenaries. Says one supervisor at a Rhodesian iron mine: "It's easy work. The niggers dig all the holes. You just stand over them...